Form of God, Form of a Servant

An examination of the Greek noun morphe in Philippians 2:6-7

Inbunden, Engelska, 2010

Av Daniel J. Fabricatore

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Form of God, Form of a Servant examines the Greek noun morphe and seeks to discover Paul's meaning when he portrayed Christ as existing in the "form of God" as well as taking on the "form of a servant" in Philippians 2:6-7. This book adopts a synchronic approach to lexical semantics, and examines a cross section of Greek writers who use morphe from the classical period up through the first century A.D. The book also looks at how morphe has been interpreted throughout the church age, before exegetically examining the passage and interpreting the term in its context.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2010-01-05
Mått162 x 239 x 25 mm
Vikt576 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor250
FörlagUniversity Press of America
ISBN9780761848271

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Chapter 1 List of FiguresChapter 2 List of TablesChapter 3 AbbreviationsChapter 4 PrefaceChapter 5 AcknowledgementsChapter 6 1. A Methodological Approach for Examining the Use of morphe in Philippians 2:6-7Chapter 7 2. A Lexical Examination of morphe in Ancient GreekChapter 8 3. An Examination of morphe in Philippians 2:6-7 in the History of InterpretationChapter 9 4. An Exegetical Examination of morphe in Philippians 2:6-7Chapter 10 5. Conclusion: Theological Implications of morphe in Philippians 2:6-7Chapter 11 AppendicesChapter 12 1. A list of Classical and Hellenistic Greek Writers who use morphe and are not examined in this studyChapter 13 2. An illustration of Paragigmatic relations for all of the semantic range of morphe in conjunction with other Greek termsChapter 14 Bibliography

Form of God, Form of a Servant, has proven to be quite valuable in my own study of Philippians 2:6-11. Lexicography is, of course, but a single instrument in our exegetical toolbox, but it an important one, nonetheless. Fabricatore is the first scholar, to my knowledge, to have employed the resources of UC Irvine's Thesaurus Linguae Graecae in the study of the various nuances of in ancient literature. The implications of Fabricatore's findings for the meaning of the term in its Christological context in Philippians are significant. Fabricatore's study will be particularly challenging to those of us who claim to find in 'form of God' (Phil 2:6) an ontological component relating to the divinity of Christ. I recommend this work for anyone wrestling with Paul's Christological masterpiece in Philippians 2.