REL275 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Epistle To The Philippians
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1 october: questions to answer regarding paul"s letter to the philippians, where is paul writing from, one important passage is the hymn, sent by people to visit paul in prison. Paul assures people that he is recovering: political, paul presents christ as the new emperor. Phil 3:20 for our state and constitutive government is in heaven. our citizenship": politeuma. Our real political landscape is somewhere else: chapter 3 in the text is about place/space. Paul is writing to the people in philippi. Whenever someone is entering into our conversation with text, they are coming from a particular time/place. Magnificat not allowed to be read for many years in. Toronto the good of the 50s is not the toronto you know today. It changes you, you change: philippi, a roman colony. Had many religions, different ethnic, racial, and imperial conflicts. Many people were descendants of veterans who fought in roman wars. Paul preaching to them, he is not from this place.
