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Eros and the Christ

Longing and Envy in Paul's Christology [Hardback]

by David E. Fredrickson

Author
David E. Fredrickson
Book Format
Hardback
Publisher
Fortress Press,U.S.
Published
June 2013

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The self-emptying of Christ (kenosis) in Philippians 2 has long been the focus of attention by Christian theologians and interpreters of Paul's christology. David E. Fredrickson sheds dramatic new light on familiar texts by discussing the centuries-old language of love and longing in Greek and Roman epistolary literature, showing that a "physics" of desire was related to notions of power and dominance. Paul