Table of Contents
Acknowledgments | Contributors | Introduction | Part 1-Visions across Time and Space | 1 Comparative Study of Gendered Strategies to Represent the Sacrality of the Group: Philo of Alexandria and a Korean-American Presbyterian Church / Karen L. King | 2 No Sex in Heaven-Nor on Earth? Luke 20:27-38 as a Proof-Text in Early Christian Discourses on Resurrection and Asceticism / Outi Lehtipuu | 3 The Body of God and the Corpus of Historiography: The Life of Aphou of Pemdje and the Anthropomorphite Controversy / Hugo Lundhaug | 4 Rewritten Eve Traditions in the Apocryphon of John / Antti Marjanen | 5 Sub Luce Videantur: The Time of Light in Early Renaissance Painting / Per Sigurd Tveitevag Styve | Part 2-Life Stages and Transformations | 6 The Transformation of Aseneth / John J. Collins | 7 "The Springtime of the Body": Resurrection in Minucius Felix's Octavius / Ingvild S.lid Gilhus | 8 Like Father Like Son: Reassessing Constructions of Fatherhood in Ephesians in Light of Cultural Interests in Family Continuity / Margaret Y. MacDonald | 9 Salvation as Slavery, Marriage and Birth: Does the Metaphor Matter? / Anna Rebecca Solevag | 10 Embodying the Female Body Politic: Pro-Papal Reception of Ephesians 5 in the Later Middle Ages / Line Cecilie Engh | Part 3-Contested Dynamics of Community | 11 Opportunities and Limits for Women in Early Christianity / Adela Yarbro Collins | 12 Emotional Bonds and Roles of the Priestesses of Vesta / Katariina Mustakallio | 13 Impedimentum sexus: The Cultic Impediment of Female Humanity / Kari Elisabeth Borresen | 14 The Dialogue between Catholics and Lutherans: Its Development and Prospects / Andre Birmele | 15 The Unity of Life: The Statement on Unity from the 10th WCC Assembly Busan, 2013 / Olav Fykse Tveit | 16 D iaconal Ministry in the Diaconal Church: Reflections on the Interrelationship between Ministerial Theology and Ecclesiology / Stephanie Dietrich | Part 4-Patterns of Ambiguity | 17 Placing Men in the Double Message of Luke's Gospel / Halvor Moxnes | 18 Two Mothers: Veturia and Mary; Two Sons: Coriolanus and Jesus / David L. Balch | 19 Seeds of Violence or Buds of Peace? Faith Resources for Creating a New Peace Consciousness and Culture / Ursula King | 20 Reproductive Capital and Slave Surrogacy: Thinking about/with/beyond Hagar / Marianne Bjelland Kartzow | 21 D ie prasentisch-immanente Wirkung des Zornes Gottes (Romer 1,21-32) / David Hellholm | 22 "Saved through Childbirth? That's Not What the Koran Says." Muslim and Christian Women in Norway Making Meaning of 1 Tim 2:8-15 / Anne Hege Grung | Bibliography of the Publications of Turid Karlsen Seim