Includes bibliographical references.

Part One. Loyalty -- Citizenship and politics according to Philippians -- Believers as loyalists: the anatomy of Paul's language of pistis -- Politics of worship in Paul's writings -- Part Two. Mutuality -- One and the many, the part and the all: unity and diversity in Messiah's body politic -- Partnership and equality: Paul's economic theory -- (Modest) challenges to patriarchy and slavery in Paul -- Relevance of Paul's eschatological ecclesiology for ecumenical relations -- Part Three. Security -- Soldiering and battling: the function of military imagery in Paul's letters -- Paul's ethic of nonretaliation and peace -- "Be(a)ware of the dogs, evildoers, and butchery": text and theory in the discourse on peace and violence in Paul -- Part Four. Affinities -- Paul on the human being as a 'psychic body': neither dualist or monist -- On the exigency of a Messianic ecclesia: an engagement with philosophical readers of Paul.