Defending Shame: Its Formative Power in Paul's Letters

by Te-Li Lau, Luke Johnson (Foreword by)

Overview

2020 Center for Biblical Studies Book Award (New Testament)

Our culture often views shame in a negative light. However, Paul's use of shame, when properly understood and applied, has much to teach the contemporary church. Filling a lacuna in Pauline scholarship, this book shows how Paul uses shame to admonish and to transform the minds of his readers into the mind of Christ. The author examines Paul's use of shame for moral formation within his Jewish and Greco-Roman context, compares and contrasts Paul's use of shame with other cultural voices, and offers a corrective understanding for today's church. Foreword by Luke Timothy Johnson.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781540960146
Publisher:	Baker Publishing Group
Publication date:	04/21/2020
Pages:	288
Sales rank:	361,154
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Te-Li Lau (PhD, Emory University) is associate professor of New Testament at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois. He is also the author of The Politics of Peace: Ephesians, Dio Chrysostom, and the Confucian Four Books.

Table of Contents

Contents

Foreword by Luke Timothy Johnson
Introduction: A Fractured Understanding of Shame
Part 1: Framework
1. Definitional Background
2. Greco-Roman Backgrounds
3. Jewish Backgrounds
Part 2: Exegesis
4. Paul's Use of Retrospective Shame
5. Paul's Use of Prospective Shame
6. Constructing Paul's Use of Shame
Part 3: Cultural Engagement
7. Contemporary Contribution
8. Contemporary Challenges
Indexes