Philippians: Let Us Rejoice In Being Conformed To Christ (early Christianity And Its Literature)
by John Paul Heil /
2010 / English / PDF
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This volume employs a text-centered, literary-rhetorical, and
audience-oriented method to demonstrate how the implied audience of
Philippians are persuaded and exhorted by the dynamic progression
of the letter s chiastic structures to rejoice along with Paul and
other believers in being conformed, with all of the broad
implications of such conformity, to Christ. This reading assumes
that Philippians is a single, unified letter written to be read and
heard in a public setting as an oral performance substituting for
the personal presence of the imprisoned Paul, and it proposes new
chiastic structures for the entire letter as a key to understanding
it.
This volume employs a text-centered, literary-rhetorical, and
audience-oriented method to demonstrate how the implied audience of
Philippians are persuaded and exhorted by the dynamic progression
of the letter s chiastic structures to rejoice along with Paul and
other believers in being conformed, with all of the broad
implications of such conformity, to Christ. This reading assumes
that Philippians is a single, unified letter written to be read and
heard in a public setting as an oral performance substituting for
the personal presence of the imprisoned Paul, and it proposes new
chiastic structures for the entire letter as a key to understanding
it.
