Kahl Brigitte W. author Union Theological Seminary. Union Theological Seminary Union Theological Seminary. Union Theological Seminary originator text Articles 2000 English Feminist and liberation oriented readings rather commonly have treated the baptismal formula of Gal. 3.26-28 as a kind of ET, a lovely lonely alien unhappily trapped in the hostile matter of a Pauline letter. While testifying to an egalitarian life practice in the congregations before, besides, and against Paul, it is considered to fit only loosely into the specific context of Galatians: Paul mainly quotes the baptismal unity of Jew and Greek as he wants to dissuade the Galatian Gentiles from getting circumcised as Jews. The emancipatory message, however, of slave/free and male/female becoming one in Christ—if it is emancipatory at all—is mostly irrelevant to the rest of the Galatian debate and to the patriarchal mindset of Paul in general. Theology 79 37 49 2000 http://hdl.handle.net/10022/AC:P:15100 NNC NNC 2012-10-26 14:42:35 -0400 2012-10-30 16:07:50 -0400 9098 eng