Paul, Imprisonment and Crisis: Crisis and its Negotiation as a Lens for Reading Philippians. (September 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Neutel, Karin B.; Smit, Peter-Ben
• Is Part Of: Journal for the study of the New Testament. Volume 44:Number 1(2021)
• Page Start: 31
• Page End: 55
• Publication Date: 2021-09
• Subjects: Paul -- Philippians -- imprisonment -- crisis -- COVID-19 -- body; 225.605
• DOI: 10.1177/0142064X211027779
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0142-064X

Abstract

COVID-19 has stimulated reflections on crisis as a catalyst for interpretation in both the present and the past. This article reads Philippians as embedded in different forms of crisis, most specifically the negotiation of Paul's own context of crisis: his imprisonment. The bodily, social and spiritual dimensions of this liminal incarceration experience are here set out and the ways in which these influence the fulfilment of mission within the epistle are outlined.