Lexington Books / Fortress Academic
Pages: 234
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Trim: 6½ x 9¼
978-1-9787-0096-3 • Hardback • November 2018 • $123.00 • (£95.00)
978-1-9787-0097-0 • eBook • November 2018 • $116.50 • (£90.00)
Nélida Naveros Córdova, CDP, is adjunct professor of New Testament at Pope St. John XXIII National Seminary.
Introduction
Chapter 1 Understanding the Spirit: The Place of Πνεῦμα in a Greco-Roman World of Jews and Gentiles
Chapter 2 The New Age Concerning Πνεῦμα’s Preeminence in Paul’s Early Letters
Chapter 3 The Development of Πνεῦμα as Font of All Christian Virtues in the Practical Life of Believers in the Later Letters
Chapter 4 Πνεῦμα and the New Conception of Liberation Pervading Paul’s Ethical Teaching
Chapter 5 Conclusion: Final Remarks
N.C.’s work is informed, balanced, and stimulating. Her use of ancient sources is precise, and her readings of Paul’s letters are compelling.
— Catholic Biblical Quarterly
Nélida Naveros Córdova offers an important and far-reaching contribution to Paul’s pneumatology, who above all develops perspectives on the Spirit’s relationship to ethics. For the author, the distinction between earlier and later Pauline letters is fundamental. As a Hellenistic Jew who participates in philosophical discourse and describes ethical objectives in platonic terms, but is also significantly influenced by the Septuagint, Paul develops in his letters a pneumatology that aims at liberation and life in terms of virtues. This ethical connotation and the linking of the Spirit’s efficacy to Christ represent the particularities of Paul‘s conceptualization. While current research often completely ignores a connection between ethics and pneumatology in Paul’s thought, Naveros Córdova demonstrates convincingly the increasingly fundamental importance that pneumatology gains for ethics in the Pauline letters.— Prof. Dr. Friedrich W. Horn, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz