Therefore, this research intends to contribute to the building of a contextual Brazilian Protestant Christology. A contextual Christology needs to address the issues of a determined context, but it also needs to keep in dialogue with the whole Christian church spread over the world. There are different Christologies in Brazil and each chapter from the third to the sixth one deals with one of them. Context is not static and in Brazil it is not different. There were important shifts in the Brazilian context and, interestingly, new Christologies or new emphases on Christology emerged to address these different contexts.

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The Brazilian Jesus: In Search of a Protestant Christology in the Brazilian Context

Korrelation von freikirche und welt. eine missionstheologisch-phänomenologische reflexion über das beziehungsverhältnis von freikirche und welt im deutschsprachigen raum

Absolution and the Universal Priesthood: From Luther to Spener

Birth and Death: Social Construction at the Poles of Existence

"The Background and Content of Paul's Cultic Atonement Metaphors, " Stephen Finlan Paul interprets the death of Christ as a saving transaction through two cultic metaphors (sacrifice and scapegoat) and an economic one (redemption, originally meaning a ransom or payment for the purchase of slaves). In the OT, the scapegoat is not substitutionary but is a literal carrier of sin out of the community; this differs from sacrifice, where the animal's blood cleanses the temple of impurities. The scapegoat is abused and driven out to the wilderness, while the sacrificial victim is a pure creature carefully offered up to Yahweh. Yet Paul conflates these quite opposite images in Rom 8: 3, along with the penal metaphor, so that sin is condemned (penal) in the flesh (scapegoat) and as a TrEPIL %WPTL'U. ý (sacrifice). In Paul's conflated metaphors, Christ becomes a penal substitute. Paul spiritualizes the OT cult, in that he uses its terms metaphorically, but Christ provides the purification that the Jewish cult was thought to provide. Martyrdom is a literal, not metaphoric, model for describing Christ's death, since martyrdom always involves a human death. Paul interprets that death with imagery transferred from another realm ("metaphors"). The beneficial after-effects of this event are depicted with social metaphors depicting a change of status from condemned to acquitted Oustification), from servant to adopted son (adoption), from alienated to restored (reconciliation). Cultic metaphor underlies Paul's other metaphors. The cultic event precedes the beneficial after-results. Redemption and justification are accomplished through Christ functioning as "the place of atonement" (Rom 3: 25). Justification is merely the by-product of a ritual transaction. Paul's metaphors imply that God chose to recognize the crucifixion as an effective ritual. The copyright of this thesis rests with the author. No quotation from it should be published without his prior written consent and information derived from it should be

Edmund Schlink

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The coming Christ and the coming church

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