Our Mother Saint Paul

by Beverly Roberts Gaventa

Book Overview

In his epistles, Paul at various points uses maternal imagery to talk about his apostolic labors, sometimes actually referring to himself as a mother. For example, Paul writes that he must behave "like a nurse caring for her own children." Later, he writes, he "is in labor again" and must continue to nurse his fellow Christians with milk. These images, though known among earlier generations of Christians, today remain largely both unacknowledged...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0664231497
• ISBN13: 9780664231491
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.6" x 8.9"