Best, One Body, 169–83; O’Brien, “Church,” 114–15.
39. Best, One Body, 160–68.
40. Schnelle, Apostle Paul, 564–66. Cerfaux, Church, 7–8, begins here. See also Schnackenburg, Church in the New Testament, 77–81, who focuses on importance of people-of-God imagery.
41. Minear, Images of the Church, 173–220. Dunn, Theology, 548, states that the body of Christ “is the dominant theological image in Pauline ecclesiology.” See also Guthrie, New Testament Theology, 744.
42. So Best, One Body, 189–92.
43. Dunn, Theology, 549–52, provides a helpful summary of issues relating to source. See Dawes, Body in Question, 1–78, on issues regarding metaphor in relation to the body of Christ.
44. Brower, Living as God’s Holy People, 4.
45. Brower, Living as God’s Holy People, 45.
46. Brower, Living as God’s Holy People, 45–46.
47. Harrington, God’s People in Christ, xvii–xviii.
48. Harrington, God’s People in Christ, 115–16.
49. For a critique of the people-of-God idea see Aletti, “Le Status de l’Église,” 153–74.
50. Horrell’s work has been chosen because he engages with the issue of solidarity; Trebilco’s work provides a close focus on ἐκκλησία amongst other NT self-designations, and Meeks’s work remains standard.
51. I acknowledge here that the terminology of “Christian” is anachronistic in discussing the Pauline Church, and therefore I will seek to avoid using it. However, there are occasions when no other term is any better. For a discussion of this see Trebilco, Self-designations, 3–4.
52. Meeks, First Urban Christians, 8.
53. Meeks, First Urban Christians, 9–72.
54. Meeks, First Urban Christians, 74.
55. Meeks, First Urban Christians, 75–84.
56. Meeks, First Urban Christians, 85–103.
57. Meeks, First Urban Christians, 75. Note that Ascough, “Translocal Relationships,” 223–41, argues that the translocal links between associations are more extensive, and the translocal links between Christian groups less extensive than is normally assumed. I will argue in following chapters that translocal links and expectations are both extensive and significant in Paul’s letters.
58. Meeks, First Urban Christians, 108–10.
59. Horrell, Solidarity and Difference, 47–82.
60. Horrell, Solidarity and Difference, 101–24.
61. Horrell, Solidarity and Difference, 129.
62. Horrell, Solidarity and Difference, 133–65.
63. Horrell, Solidarity and Difference, 166–203.
64. Horrell, Solidarity and Difference, 204–45.
65. Horrell, Solidarity and Difference, 246–72.
66. Horrell, Solidarity and Difference, 115.
67. Trebilco, Self-designations, 1.
68. Trebilco, Self-designations, 6–9.
69. Trebilco, Self-designations, 22–23, 179–80.
70. See also Stenschke, “Significance and Function of References,” 185–228.
71. Dunn, Beginning from Jerusalem, 655.
72. Dunn, Beginning from Jerusalem, 655–56.
73. Dunn, Beginning from Jerusalem, 657.
74. Kloha, “Trans-Congregational Church,” 180–81.
75. Stenschke, “Significance and Function of References,” 217–21.
76. Thompson, “Holy Internet,” 56–60.
77. Stenschke, “Significance and Function of References,” 195–96.
78. Stenschke, “Significance and Function of References,” 204–5.
79. Stenschke, “Significance and Function of References,” 208–17.
80. Stenschke, “Significance and Function of References,” 200–201.
81. Kloha, “Trans-Congregational,” 183.
