Woman and man in Paul overcoming a misunderstanding /
Norbert Baumert; translated by Patrick Madigan and Linda M. Maloney
- Collegeville, Minnesota: The Liturgical Press, c1996.
- x, 498 p. ; 22 cm.
" A Michael Glazier book'
Includes bibliographical references
pt. A. The Principal Pauline Letters. I. Cordial Reactions. II. The Protection of Marriage Against Religious Rigorism: 1 Corinthians 7:1-16. III. One's Personal Call as the Criterion: 1 Corinthians 7:17-24. IV. On Celibacy for an Engaged Couple: 1 Corinthians 7:25-40. V. "The Body for the Lord and the Lord for the Body": 1 Corinthians 6:12-20. VI. The Most Serious Sin? VII. Women in the Community pt. B. The So-Called Deutero-Pauline Writings. I.A One-Sided Subordination? Ephesians 5:15-33. II. Woman in the Pastoral Letters Improvement or Decline? pt. C. Toward a Biblical View of the Human Person pt. D. God of the Past and of the Future Perspectives. I. The Divine Kingship and Human Society. II. Man and Woman within the Priestly People of God. III. Salvation and Sexuality. IV. The "Indissolubility" of Marriage? V. Celibacy and Its Motive. VI. Toward a Hermeneutic of Apostolic Recommendations Conclusion: Paul Open to God's New Ways
Attempting to readjust traditional views of the Apostle Paul as relatively insensitive to, and completely caught up in, the gender biases between men and women in his own day, Norbert Baumert, S.J., in this work, tries to clarify the issues. Through a painstaking restudy of Paul's original language in his letters, and the reformation of the interpretations this affords, interwoven with the input of the Early Church Fathers, Baumert helps us glimpse Paul's gender attitudes in a fresh and surprisingly revealing light. By fleshing out the context - legal, linguistic, and gender-related - of Paul's thoughtworld, and by comparing it with that of today, Baumert suggests that we, both as Christian individuals and as Church, may have to do our own contemporary rethinking of the relations between men and women in terms of sexuality, marriage, and celibacy, based on these new Pauline insights
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