The Unrelenting God – Forthcoming FS for Gaventa

Beverly Gaventa (soon to be at Baylor) is one of the leading NT scholars in the world. She has written and edited loads of works and she is currently writing a commentary on Romans for WJK. I have benefited greatly from her work, so I was pleased to know that a FS is coming in October to celebrate her leadership and service to the guild. Here are the details:

David J. Downs and Matthew Skinner (eds.), The Unrelenting God: Essays on God’s Action in Scripture In Honor of Beverly Roberts Gaventa (Eerdmans, 2013).
Details on the volume are limited at this point, so I contacted my buddy David Downs (at Fuller) and he was kind enough to allow me to share the provisional table of contents (which appears to include a very distinguished list of contributors including a word from Gaventa’s hero Lou Martyn!)

Body Piercings Revisited: Piercings and Profanations of “Bodies,” and the Character of God in Ezekiel
Jacqueline E. Lapsley
Conversion in Luke-Acts: God’s Prevenience, Human Embodiment
Joel B. Green
“Not Knowing What Will Happen to Me There”: Experiences of the Holy Spirit in Luke-Acts
John B. F. Miller
The Word of God and the Church: On the Theological Implications of Three Summary Statements in the Acts of the Apostles
Matthew L. Skinner
Lost in Translation: A Reflection on Romans in the Common English Bible
Richard B. Hays
Is Paul a Covenantal Theologian?
Francis Watson
Sin’s Corruption of the Knowledge of God and the Law in Romans 1–8
Shane Berg
Time in Romans 5–8: From Life to Life
L. Ann Jervis
“Who Hopes for What Is Seen?”: Political Theology through Romans
Douglas Harink
Creation, Gender, and Identity in (New) Cosmic Perspective: 1 Corinthians 11:2-16
Alexandra R. Brown
Ashes on the Frontal Lobe: Cognitive Dissonance and Cruciform Cognition in 2 Corinthians
Susan Grove Eastman
Cross and Cosmos in Galatians
Martinus C. de Boer
Unity in the Community: Rereading Galatians 2:15-21
William Sanger Campbell
The God Who Gives Life That Is Truly Life: Meritorious Almsgiving and the Divine Economy in 1 Timothy 6
David J. Downs
Jesus Christ, the End of the Law
Katherine Sonderegger
Role Model—God’s Image—Life-Giving Spirit: Who Is Jesus Christ for Us Today?
Michael Welker