Transforming Boasting of Self into Boasting in the Lord
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- ISBN 9780761861232
- Weight: 531g
- Dimensions: 152 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 12 Jul 2013
- Publisher: University Press of America
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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This book uses rhetorical analysis to illuminate one of the most fascinating and complicated speeches by Saint Paul: 2 Cor 10–13. The main problem of the speech regards Paul’s claim to be a true servant of Christ and to have the right to boast about it. Paul proves he is strong enough to be the leader of Corinth and paradoxically demonstrates that weakness should belong to the identity of an apostle. Another issue regards the legitimacy of his boasting. The egocentric boast based on the comparison with his opponents is the one that Paul calls foolish, but he is forced, nevertheless, to undertake it. The tool that ultimately enables him to transform self-aggrandizing speech into speech that is focused on Christ is his paradoxical boasting of weakness. The careful crafting of his discourse based on Christological principles ultimately speaks for qualifying it as a self-praise speech (periautologia) with a pedagogical, not defensive, purpose.
Fr. Marcin Kowalski was born in Kielce, Poland. He became an ordained priest in 2002 at the diocese of Kielce. In 2011, he obtained a Ph.D. in sacred scripture at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome. He currently teaches courses in the Old and New Testaments at John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin in Poland.
