Dr. GrantBuchanan
The Spirit, New Creation, and Christian Identity: Towards a Pneumatological Reading of Galatians 3:1-6:17
The Spirit, New Creation, and Christian Identity: Towards a Pneumatological Reading of Galatians 3:1-6:17
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Grant Buchanan explores how Paul draws from Jewish traditions of creation and the Spirit to present a fresh cosmogony to the Galatian church, highlighting the centrality of the Spirit in Paul's argument and the broader socio-cosmic transformation implied by the new creation motif.
Format: Hardback
Length: 226 pages
Publication date: 15 June 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Grant Buchanan delves into the significance of pneumatological themes in interpreting Paul's argument in Galatians. By drawing from Jewish traditions of creation and the Spirit, Buchanan presents a fresh cosmogony to the Galatian church. He argues that Galatians outlines an epistemological shift in how Paul perceives past, present, and future reality in light of Christ and the presence of the Spirit in the lives of believers.
The most crucial aspect of this new cosmogony is the centrality of the Spirit in Paul's argument, as Buchanan's exegesis reveals. The Spirit, the Galatians' identity as children of God, and the new creation motif are not merely elements of Paul's argument but intrinsic to it. Buchanan demonstrates that Paul renders Jewish and Gentile identities no longer valid, instead revealing that God's favor and election are already with them by stating that those who have the promised Spirit are all children of God.
He examines Jewish biblical and Second Temple extra-biblical texts that explicitly connect the Spirit to creation themes, including Genesis, Ezekiel, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the Wisdom of Solomon. Taking Galatians 6:11–17 as the letter's body-closing, the new creation motif directly implies the activity of the Spirit in the creation of Christian identity.
Analysing 6:15 from this pneumatological perspective, Buchanan argues that the new creation motif represents a key aspect of Paul's generative cosmogony and pneumatology, indicating a far broader socio-cosmic transformation than previously assumed. It becomes a key to understanding Paul's argument.
Weight: 500g
Dimension: 163 x 243 x 21 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780567709257
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