Abstract

Subtitled "A Study of St. Paul's Application of Old Testament and Early Jewish Conceptions of Human Solidarity," this book includes extensive discussions of the relation between individual and group in the Old Testament, the solidarity of the human race in sin and through creation, and Paul's conceptions of Adam as the father of mankind, Christ as the second Adam, the Church as the true Israel of God, and faith, baptism and the Eucharist as related to the new fellowship of man. Many of Paul's major doctrines are shown to be applications of traditional Hebraic themes of group solidarity.—J. J.