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James DG Dunn
1998, London, t&t clark.

Holy Spirit
'It is quite characteristic of Paul's conception of the Spirit to link it with experiences of revelation and knowledge.' (p.431-2)

Mind of Christ
Mind of the Lord = God / Mind of Christ = Jesus (p.250)
nous = mind vs. kardia = heart (p.73)
nous = 'highest part of a person. This reflects the typically Greek evaluation of reason or rationality as that which relates to the divine, as of a piece with the divine, as the divine in humanity.' (p.74)
nous important to Paul - Rom. 7.23,25 Rom 12.2 Eph 4.23, etc....
soma = 'embodied "I"' / nous = 'the rational person, the percieving, thinking, determining "I"' (p.74)
cf Jewett - Anthropological Terms - 'a complex of thoughts and assumptions which can make up the consciousness of a person.' (378)
N.B. Dunn views the reading of the 'mind of Christ' as an individual process cf. Paul "We have the mind of Christ".

Body of Christ
Community without cult (pp.543-8) - 'Paul can hardly have been unaware of the strangeness of his vision of his churches at this point. On the contrary, his use of language shows that he was deliberately breaking with the typical understanding of a religious community dependent on cult centre, office of priest, and act of ritual sacrifice. Whether a community without cult was practical and sustainable, given not least the eschatological community was itself caught in the overlap of the ages and the resulting eschatological tension, is another question.' (p.548)
'dominant theological image in Pauline ecclesiology' (p.548)
'key distinguishing factor is a sense of mutual interdependence in Christ, expressed in mutual responsibility one for another...' (p.552)
A Harnack, The Constitution and Law of the Church in the First Two Centuries (London: 1910) - churches were 'spiritual democracies'
E Schweizer - Church Order - the Church becomes the Church by the repeated action of the Spirit...