Author(s): Barbara Beyer
Series: Supplements to Novum Testamentum; 191
Publisher: Brill
Year: 2024
Language: English
Pages: 468
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Figures
Abbreviations
Part 1: Preliminaries
1 Observations and Resolutions
2 Mapping the Past: The History of Research
3 Methodological Re-orientation
4 The Preposition ἐν: “Maid-of-All Work” and Magic Word
5 What’s in a Title? The Meaning of Χριστός and κύριος
6 The Argumentative Power of Experience: Baptism as a Ritual
Part 2: Exegesis
Introduction to Part 2
7 In Christ Jesus through Baptism (Gal 3:26, 28)
8 In Christ Jesus Because of God (1 Cor 1:30)
9 Living in Christ as a Result of Having Come under His Rulership Who Now Is Also in Them (Rom 6:11; 8:1–2)
10 Boundaries Crossed and the Pervasive Lordship of Christ (Rom 16:7, 11)
11 Determined by Christ and His Love (2 Cor 5:17)
12 Dominated by Christ “My” Lord and Thus Ruling Everything a Loss, So That Eventually God Will Judge “Me” to Be in Christ (Phil 3:9)
Part 3: Perspectives: “Being ‘in Christ’” among Similar Phenomena
Introduction to Part 3
13 More ἐν Χριστῷ: The Power of Paul’s Coined, Catchy, and Sharp Phrasing
14 More Prepositional Phrases: σὺν Χριστῷ, διὰ Χριστοῦ, and Others
15 More Paul: ἐν Χριστῷ in the Deutero-Pauline Letters
Part 4: Determined by Christ: The Pauline Metaphor “Being ‘in Christ’”
16 Results
Appendix: Colon Analyses
Bibliography
Index of Modern Authors
Index of Subjects
Index of Ancient Sources