Cosmology and Self in the Apostle Paul The Material Spirit

includes index and biblioraphy

1. A Stoic Understanding of the Pneuma and Resurrection in 1 Corinthians 15 8 Looking for a Real World-View 8 A`History of Salvation` 10 Modern Understandings of the Pauline Pneuma 14 The Philosophical Context: Cicero on Pneuma and God 19 The Philosophical Context: The Wisdom of Solomon and Philo on Pneuma and God 22 Stoic Cosmology in 1 Corinthians 15:35-49 26 Stoic Cosmology in 1 Corinthians 15:50-5 31 `Apocalyptic` and Philosophical Cosmology in Paul 37 2. The Bodily Pneuma in Paul 39 Broader Questions about the Pneuma 39 The Pneuma and Resurrection in Philippians and their Present Implications 41 The Pneuma and Resurrection in 2 Corinthians 4:7-5:10 and their Present Implications 46 Conformity with Christ in His Death and Resurrection: Romans 8:10, 8:14-30, and 6:2-6 51 The Relationship between Christ and the Pneuma 55 Paul`s Conception of God 58 The Ontology of the Pneuma `Itself 61 The Pneuma Outside and Within Human Beings 66 The Gift of the Pneuma: When? 67 The Gift of the Pneuma: How? 70 Prayer and the Pneuma 73 3. Physics, Cognition, and Superhuman Persons 75 Three Types of Discourse 75 The Cognitive Role of the Pneuma 76 Physics, Cognition, and Personhood 80 Examples of Overlap-and the True Contrast 83 Christ in the Underworld, Paul in Heaven 87 Beyond the Elements of the World 90 The Pauline Geisterwelt: Angels, Demons, Satan 92 Is the Stoic Picture of the World More Optimistic than Paul`s? 98 Paul`s Cosmological cum `Apocalyptic` Anthropology 102 4. Divine and Human Agency and Freedom 106 Overview 106 Epictetus: Three Questions 109 Epictetus: The Human Being on the Scala Naturae 111 Epictetus: Prohairesis 112 Epictetus: Prohairesis and the Human Relationship with the Body and the World 114 Epictetus: Prohairesis and the Human Relationship with God 116 Epictetus: A Personalist (and Physicalist) Conception of God-and a Cognitivist One Epictetus: Divine and Human Agency 119 Paul: Introduction 121 Transferrals of Agency 123 Divine Agency in Conversion 125 Divine Agency vis-a-vis Non-Christ-Believers 126 Divine and Human Agency after Conversion 127 Summary on Paul 128 Comparison with Epictetus 131 Conclusion 137 5. From the Self to the Shared 139 A Change of Gear 139 Bourdieu`s Concept of Habitus 141 The Pauline Language of Experience 142 Foucault`s Concept of Subjectification 145 Overview: Three Texts, Three Topics 147 Philippians 3:4-11: Paul Himself 147 Philippians 3:12-4:1: Paul and the Addressees 153 The Underlying Missionary Logic of Philippians 3:4-4:1 155 The Converted Self in Galatians 1-2 and 6 157 The Shared Habitus in Galatians 5 162 A Generalized Self-Account and Its Paraenetic Purpose in Romans 7-8 164 The Christian Habitus in 1 Corinthians 169 6. Bodily Practice 172 The Special Contours of the Christian Habitus 172 Metaphorical Speech in Paul 173 The Physical Underpinning of Paul`s Cognitive and `Ethical` Language 175 Paul`s Christian Habitus in Context: A Breakthrough 182 Paul`s Christian Habitus Now? 193 The Initial Transmission and Reception 194 Paul`s Bodily Practice in 2 Corinthians 1-7 198 Paul`s Letter-Writing as a Bodily Practice 205