Walk in the Ways of Wisdom: Essays in Honor of Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza

Despite the initial promise of the term's use for "the world created by God" in the LXX, its self-referential use by the Roman Empire in propaganda and iconography and its negative use in this sense in Revelation, the Gospels, and Acts, suggest to Rossing that, in the present age of globalization and renewed imperialism, our ecumenical vision is better shaped by terms such as ekklesia or koinonia or even images of biodiversity than by oikoumene as the whole world "civilized" by empire. In part 4, Kittredge analyzes four volumes of essays from the Pauline Theology Group of the Society of Biblical Literature, illustrating the single-author (and single-authority) model of Paul; she contrasts this corpus and model with her own work and with that of Antoinette Clark Wire with a view toward recovering community authorship by taking seriously and imaginatively the remnants and reminders of earlier texts embedded in Paul's letters as echoes of other voices.