Our Mother Saint Paul by Beverly Roberts Gaventa
In his epistles, Paul at various points uses maternal imagery to talk about his apostolic labors, sometimes actually referring to himself as a mother. For example, Paul writes that he must behave "like a nurse caring for her own children." Later, he writes, he "is in labor again" and must continue to nurse his fellow Christians with milk. These images, though known among earlier generations of Christians, today remain largely both unacknowledged and unexplored in thinking about Paul and his work. In Our Mother Saint Paul, Beverly Gaventa retrieves these images, explores their significance for understanding apostolic ministry, and demonstrates how they point beyond their original contexts and offer unique perspectives for understanding Paul's thought as well as the larger, cosmic understanding of the gospel.
Beverly Roberts Gaventa is Helen H. P. Manson Professor of New Testament Literature and Exegesis at Princeton Theological Seminary in Princeton, New Jersey. She has published a number of books including Mary: Glimpses of the Mother of Jesus and Our Mother Saint Paul.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780664231491 |
| ISBN 10 | 0664231497 |
| Title | Our Mother Saint Paul |
| Author | Beverly Roberts Gaventa |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Westminster/John Knox Press,U.S. |
| Year published | 2007-07-03 |
| Number of pages | 232 |
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