Paul and the Religious Experience of Reconciliation: Diasporic Community and Creole Consciousness

by Gilbert I. Bond

Overview

In the ancient world as in contemporary times, religion provides a vital context in which people become who they are and establish themselves with a unique identity. This process of constructing the self is not only a psychological process and a phenomenological reality; it can also be a deeply religious experience.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780664222710
Publisher:	Westminster John Knox Press
Publication date:	08/03/2005
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Gilbert I. Bond is founder and President of the Leadership Center for Christian Reconciliation in New Haven, Connecticut.

Table of Contents

	Preface	vii
1	William James and Phenomenology of Religion	1
2	Self/Shame Dynamics: Three Theories	13
3	Augustinian and Lutheran Interpolations of Paul, and a Diasporic Revision	41
4	A Phenomenology of Reconciliation: Transformations of Self and Sacrality	67
5	Transformation: The Incorporation of Vulnerability and the Emergence of Heterogeneous Selfhood	97
	Endnotes	117
	Bibliography	149
	Index of Scripture	167
	Index of Subjects and Names	169