"This work presents Paul's pastoral anthroplogy in terms of his own thought, not alien categories imposed upon him. After examining in part 1 the New Testament witness about Jesus the Christ to discover what humans can be and should be (anthropology), Murphey-O'Connor turns his attention in part 2 to the human condition within society: under sin; alienated from God and the world; and egocentric. Part 3 then discusses life in the body of Chirst -- the Christian community -- as the authentic existence that overcomes egocentric alienation in the true freedom of the mind of Christ." from back cover