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Polarity and Change in 1 Corinthians 15
A Study of Metaphysics, Rhetoric, and Resurrection
By Jeffrey R. Asher
December 2000
J.C.B. Mohr
ISBN: 3-16-147411-2
262 Pages
$135.50 Cloth
The author examines the themes of polarity and change in Paul's argument in 1 Corinthians 15:35-57, demonstrating that Paul uses a didactic method of argumentation about the resurrection of the dead. Some of the contents are: Change and ancestral changes; Paul's rhetoric; Paul's didactic style; argument of inconsistency; correcting the dissenters; accommodation; solution to the Corinthians Dilemma; Paul's antithetical style; distribution of bodies; philosophical denial; correction of false conclusion; Paul and Aristotle.
Theology
Hermeneutische Untersuchungen zur Theologie, 42