Susan Eastman – Paul and the Person

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Judaism, Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 666 Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2018

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Episode: In this episode, Susan Eastman talks with Erin and Matt about her new book on Pauline Anthropology. The book is a fascinating three-way dialogue between the Apostle Paul, Epictetus, and […] The post Susan Eastman – Paul and the Person first appeared on OnScript.

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, this is just a quick note to let you know that there are a few issues with the audio in this one,
0:04.7	where Skype was dropping out a little bit here and there, but we felt like it was still very listenable,
0:09.3	and we hope you enjoy it. Thanks.
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0:32.3	Welcome back OnScript listeners.
0:34.2	I'm Matt Lynch, a co-host of the podcast, along with Matt Bates, Drew Johnson, Aaron Heim, and Chris Tilling. At OnScript, we aim to bring you in on the conversations happening at the center and periphery of biblical studies. This episode brings you into the center, into Pauline anthropology, which impinges on big questions around gender, identity,
0:57.5	participatory theology, and much, much more.
1:00.9	Aaronheim and Matt Bates are hosting this interview with Susan Eastman, and we hope you
1:05.3	enjoy.
1:17.6	The notion of a free and autonomous self pervades popular Western culture. From Polonius's rather haughty to thine own self be true, to Descartes, I think, therefore I am, to Simon and Garfunkel's, I am a rock, I am an island.
1:29.3	The autonomous self dominates popular understandings of what it means to be human.
1:34.2	Against such notions, Susan Eastman claims that there is no freestanding self.
1:39.2	The self is always a self in relation to others.
1:42.6	Looking at Paul's unusual grammar where the Pauline eye is constituted in relation to another,
1:48.5	she asked poignant questions like, what kind of agency is implied and exercised by a self
1:53.8	that is not solely self-determining?
1:56.4	What happens to both freedom and responsibility?
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