Perhaps the most prominent refrain the Pauline corpus, says Hansen is the affirmation that unity in Christ overcomes the social division of Jew versus Greek, slave versus free, and other dichotomies. An ordained minister in San Francisco, he explores the background of the idea, its intended purpose for original readers, and its significance to believers today. Among his topics are reading Paul ethnically, the household of faith, the body of Christ, the new humanity, and unity as ethnic solidarity. The study began as his Ph.D. dissertation at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland. T&T Clark is an imprint of Continuum. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)