دانلود کتاب Christ, Creation and the Cosmic Goal of Redemption: A Study of Pauline Creation Theology as Read by Irenaeus and Applied to Ecotheology

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Cover\nHalf-title\nTitle\nCopyright\nContents\nAcknowledgements\nList of Abbreviations\nChapter 1: Introduction and Background to Study\n I. The Aims of the Study\n II. The Scholarly Context\n a. Creation in the Old Testament\n b. Creation in the New Testament\n c. Paul and Creation\n d. The Bible and Ecotheology\n III. Methods and Sources\n IV. Chapter Outlines\n a. Chapter 2: ‘Christ of the New Creation’\n b. Chapter 3: ‘Christ of the Beginning and End’\n c. Chapter 4: ‘Christ as Image of God and as Adam’\n d. Chapter 5: ‘Irenaeus of Lyons, Theologian of Creation’\n e. Chapter 6: ‘Irenaeus and Paul’\n f. Chapter 7: ‘Paul, Irenaeus and Ecotheology: Possibilities for Consideration’\nChapter 2: Christ of the New Creation\n I. New Creation within a Pauline Theological Framework: The Debate\n a. J. Louis Martyn: New Creation as a Cosmic Act of God in Christ\n b. M. Hubbard: New Creation as Personal Conversion\n 1. Internal Spiritual Conversion of Human Hearts\n 2. Paul’s Defence of His Apostolic Ministry\n 3. Paul’s Own Conversion\n c. T. Ryan Jackson: New Creation as Inclusive of Personal, Communal and Cosmic Dimensions\n d. A Comparative Analysis: Methodological Considerations\n 1. Isaiah or Aseneth?\n 2. Personal Conversion or Apocalyptic Unveiling?\n II. An Apocalyptic Paul? Revisiting the Scholarly Debate\n a. Definitions and Characteristics of Apocalyptic Eschatology\n b. The Linguistic Web of Apocalyptic Motifs in Paul\n 1. ἀποκάλυψις\n 2. αἰών\n 3. καταργέω\n 4. ἐν τάχει\n 5. κόσμος\n 6. κτίσις/κτίζω\n c. Preliminary Conclusions\n III. Conclusion: The Scope of New Creation – Humanity, Community and/ or Cosmos?\nChapter 3: Christ of the Beginning and End\n I. Christ and the Creation of All Things (1 Cor. 8.6 and 1 Cor. 10.26)\n a. Introduction\n b. Background and Context\n 1. Background Issues (1 Cor. 8.1– 11.1)\n 2. The Historical and Social Setting (1 Cor. 8.1– 11.1)\n c. First Corinthians 8.6: Introduction and Guiding Questions\n 1. Semantic Sphere of Reference\n 2. Syntactical, Linguistic and Contextual Issues\n i. First pair of clauses: ἡμῖν εἷς Θεὸς ὁ πατὴρ . . . καὶ εἷς κύριος ’Ιησοῦς Χριστός\n ii. Second pair of clauses: ἐξ οὗ τὰ πάντα . . . δι‘ οὗ τὰ πάντα\n iii. Third pair of clauses: ἡμεῖς εἰς αὐτόν . . . ἡμεῖς δι‘ αὐτοῦ\n d. First Corinthians 10.26: Ps. 24.1 (LXX, Ps. 23.1)\n e. Ethical Imperative: Life in the Law of Christ\n II. Christ and the Telos: Subjection and Reconciliation of All Things (1 Cor. 15.20- 28)\n III. Implications and Conclusion\nChapter 4: Christ as Image of God and as Adam\n I. Introduction\n II. Image of God in Primal Creation: Divine Likeness in the Creation Narrative (Gen. 1.26- 28)\n III. Image of God in Paul: Introduction to Paul’s Reading of Gen. 1.26- 28\n a. Man as Image and Glory of God (1 Cor. 11.2- 16)\n b. Humanity as Bearing the Image of the Earthy First- Born Man (1 Cor. 15.47- 49)\n c. Christ as Image of God (2 Cor. 4.3- 4; Col. 1.15)\n 1. 2 Corinthians 4.3- 4\n 2. Colossians 1.15 (Col. 1.9- 23)\n d. Believers as in the Image of Christ (Rom. 8.28- 30; 1 Cor. 15.49; 2 Cor. 3.18; Col. 3.9- 10)\n 1. Romans 8.28- 30\n 2. 1 Corinthians 15.49\n 3. 2 Corinthians 3.18\n 4. Colossians 3.9- 10\n e. Preliminary Conclusions\n IV. Adam and Christ: The New Creation in Christ Illuminates the First Creation in Adam (1 Cor. 15.21- 22; 1 Cor. 15.42- 49)\n V. Conclusions\nChapter 5: Irenaeus of Lyons, Theologian of Creation\n I. Introduction\n a. Scholarship on Irenaeus and Creation\n b. Background and Setting of Irenaeus\n c. ‘Gnostic’ Teaching on the Creator, Creation and Redemption\n II. The Irenaean Response\n a. Pillar One: The Integrity and Unity of God Who Creates through His Two Hands, Son and Spirit\n 1. The Motivating Principle of Creation\n 2. Creation Ex Nihilo\n b. Pillar Two: The Integrity of the Incarnation\n 1. Incarnation and Protology: Mediating God to Creation\n 2. Incarnation as Material and Spiritual: The Humanitas and Divinitas of Christ\n i. Incarnation as human: Adam as a ‘type’ of Christ\n ii. Incarnation and the goodness of creation\n iii. Incarnation and the Eucharist\n 3. Incarnation and Soteriology\n i. Soteriology as the redemption of sin: the redirection of human free will towards God\n ii. Soteriology as the redemption and immortality of the flesh\n iii. Soteriology as the perfecting of all things\n c. Pillar Three: The Climax of Creation in the Economy of God\n 1. A Modified Chiliastic Vision\n i. The inheritance of the earth\n ii. Participation with God: a theocentric climax\n III. Conclusion\nChapter 6: Irenaeus and Paul\n I. Hermeneutical and Exegetical Conventions\n a. Background and Current Scholarship on Irenaeus’ Reading of Paul\n b. The Prolegomena to the Hermeneutical Task\n 1. Establishing Authoritative Texts: The Unity and Harmony of the New with the Old\n 2. Establishing Epistemological Limitations on Human Kn?wledge\n 3. Establishing the Rule of Faith as the Basis for Community Reading\n II. Irenaeus’ Ktisiological Framework: The Pauline Texts\n a. Christ and Creation: A Pauline Framework\n 1. Christ and Creation: Protology\n 2. Christ and Creation: The Incarnation\n 3. Christ and Creation: Soteriology and Eschatology\n III. Conclusion\nChapter 7: Paul, Irenaeus and Ecotheology: Possibilities for Consideration\n I. Pauline Creation Themes and Ecotheology\n II. Ecological Hermeneutic Considerations\n a. A Christocentric Theological Hermeneutic\n b. Beyond Rom. 8.19- 25 and Col. 1.15- 20\n c. Ecology as a Hermeneutical Lens\n III. Pauline Theological Categories\n a. Soteriology: Redemption to Creation and Telos\n b. Incarnation and Eucharist in Relation to the Creation\n c. Theocentric Directed Eschatology\n IV. Conclusion: In the Beginning . . . in the New Beginning ‘in Christ’\nBibliography\nIndex