Our Mother Saint Paul
In his epistles, Paul at various points uses maternal imagery to talk about his apostolic labors, sometimes actually referring to himself as a mother. For example, Paul writes that he must behave like a nurse caring for her own children. Later, he writes, he is in labor again and must continue to nurse his fellow Christians with milk. These images, though known among earlier generations of Christians, today remain largely both unacknowledged and unexplored in thinking about Paul and his work. In Our Mother Saint Paul, Beverly Gaventa retrieves these images, explores their significance for understanding apostolic ministry, and demonstrates how…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-664-23149-1
- EAN: 9780664231491
- Produktnummer: 2901117
- Verlag: Westminster John Knox Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
- Seitenangabe: 232 S.
- Masse: H23.5 cm x B19.1 cm x D1.2 cm 442 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 442
Über den Autor
Beverly Roberts Gaventa is Helen H. P. Manson Professor of New Testament Literature and Exegesis at Princeton Theological Seminary in Princeton, New Jersey. She has published a number of books including Mary: Glimpses of the Mother of Jesus, one of the few books written about Mary by a Protestant woman.
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