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Cynics, Paul and the Pauline Churches

Author : F. Gerald Downing
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134694571
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book Cynics, Paul and the Pauline Churches written by F. Gerald Downing and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: F. Gerald Downing explores the teachings of Paul, arguing that the development of Paul's preaching and of the Pauline Church owed a great deal to the views of the vagabond Cynic philosophers, critics of the gods and of the ethos of civic society. F. Gerald Downing examines the New Testament writings of Paul, explaining how he would have been seen, heard, perceived and understood by his culturally and ethnically diverse converts and disciples. He engages in a lucid Pauline commentary and offers some startling and ground-breaking views of Paul and his Word. Cynics, Paul and the Pauline Churches is a unique and controversial book, particularly in its endorsement of the simple and ascetic life proffered in Paul's teachings in comparison with the greedy, consumerist and self-promoting nature of today's society.

Cynics, Paul, and the Pauline Churches

Author : Francis Gerald Downing
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415171595
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (715 download)

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Download or read book Cynics, Paul, and the Pauline Churches written by Francis Gerald Downing and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: F. Gerald Downing explores the teachings of Paul, arguing that the development of Paul's preaching and of the Pauline Church owed a great deal to the views of the vagabond Cynic philosophers, critics of the gods and of the ethos of civic society. F. Gerald Downing examines the New Testament writings of Paul, explaining how he would have been seen, heard, perceived and understood by his culturally and ethnically diverse converts and disciples. He engages in a lucid Pauline commentary and offers some startling and ground-breaking views of Paul and his Word. Cynics, Paul and the Pauline Churches is a unique and controversial book, particularly in its endorsement of the simple and ascetic life proffered in Paul's teachings in comparison with the greedy, consumerist and self-promoting nature of today's society.

The Mission of the Church: In Paul's Letter to the Philippians in the Context of Ancient Judaism

Author : J. Patrick Ware
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004146415
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Book Synopsis The Mission of the Church: In Paul's Letter to the Philippians in the Context of Ancient Judaism by : J. Patrick Ware

Download or read book The Mission of the Church: In Paul's Letter to the Philippians in the Context of Ancient Judaism written by J. Patrick Ware and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2005 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illumining the Jewish context of early Christian mission, this study through close exegesis of Paul's letter to the Philippians reveals the crucial place of the mission of the church in Paul's thought.

Cynicism and Christianity in Antiquity

Author : Marie-Odile Goulet-Cazé
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467456675
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (674 download)

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Book Synopsis Cynicism and Christianity in Antiquity by : Marie-Odile Goulet-Cazé

Download or read book Cynicism and Christianity in Antiquity written by Marie-Odile Goulet-Cazé and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2019-08-20 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Was Jesus a Cynic? Cynicism and Christianity in Antiquity is a literary tour de force analyzing and refuting the hypothesis that Jesus was a Cynic. Marie-Odile Goulet-Cazé examines the arguments submitted by some New Testament scholars who believe that Jesus and his disciples were influenced by the ethics and social behaviors of itinerant Cynic preachers. In examining the “Cynic Jesus hypothesis,” Goulet-Cazé offers a reliable, accessible, and fully documented summary of Cynicism and its ideas, from Diogenes to the Imperial Period, and she investigates the extent and nature of contact between Cynics and Jewish people, especially between 100 BCE and 100 CE. While recognizing similarities between the ideas and morals of ancient Cynicism and those evident in early Christian movements, Goulet-Cazé identifies more significant, fundamental differences between them in culture, theology, and worldview.

Paul and the Mission of the Church

Author : James P. Ware
Publisher : Baker Books
ISBN 13 : 1441236341
Total Pages : 553 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (412 download)

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Download or read book Paul and the Mission of the Church written by James P. Ware and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did Paul urge Christians to engage in mission? What would that have meant in his setting? What should the church be doing now? This essential study examines Paul's letter to the Philippians in its ancient Jewish context, making a convincing case that Paul expected churches to continue the work of spreading the gospel. Published in hardcover by Brill, it is now available as an affordable paperback.

Cynicism

Author : Ansgar Allen
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262537885
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book Cynicism written by Ansgar Allen and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A short history of cynicism, from the fearless speech of the ancient Greeks to the jaded negativity of the present. Everyone's a cynic, yet few will admit it. Today's cynics excuse themselves half-heartedly—“I hate to be a cynic, but..."—before making their pronouncements. Narrowly opportunistic, always on the take, contemporary cynicism has nothing positive to contribute. The Cynicism of the ancient Greeks, however, was very different. This Cynicism was a marginal philosophy practiced by a small band of eccentrics. Bold and shameless, it was committed to transforming the values on which civilization depends. In this volume of the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Ansgar Allen charts the long history of cynicism, from the “fearless speech” of Greek Cynics in the fourth century BCE to the contemporary cynic's lack of social and political convictions. Allen describes ancient Cynicism as an improvised philosophy and a way of life disposed to scandalize contemporaries, subjecting their cultural commitments to derision. He chronicles the subsequent “purification” of Cynicism by the Stoics; Renaissance and Enlightenment appropriations of Cynicism, drawing on the writings of Shakespeare, Rabelais, Rousseau, de Sade, and others; and the transition from Cynicism (the philosophy) to cynicism (the modern attitude), exploring contemporary cynicism from the perspectives of its leftist, liberal, and conservative critics. Finally, he considers the possibility of a radical cynicism that admits and affirms the danger it poses to contemporary society.

Theology and Practice in Early Christianity

Author : Troy W. Martin
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
ISBN 13 : 3161548116
Total Pages : 553 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (615 download)

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Download or read book Theology and Practice in Early Christianity written by Troy W. Martin and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2020-08-12 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early Christianity did not originate in a vacuum but in a world of linguistic, social, religious, and cultural richness and diversity. The twenty-two seminal essays in this volume - some previously published, some newly written - represent almost three decades of research by Troy W. Martin to understand how early Christianity developed in the ancient world. The broad-ranging investigations in these essays give attention not only to the linguistic and rhetorical features of early Christian texts, but also to the social, philosophical, physiological, and medical contexts in which these texts were written. The essays provide new understandings of early Christian conceptions of salvation and of the virtues of faith, hope and love that characterized early Christian communities. They include new medical and physiological explanations of early Christian sacraments, pneumatology, and eschatology and furthermore investigate early Christian communal life and practice, including the veiling of women, male/female relationships, and time-keeping. The essays include reception histories that describe their influence on subsequent research and place them within the context of contemporary research and scholarship. Those familiar with the well-trodden ground of New Testament studies will find in these essays new insights and previously unexplored comparative material for understanding early Christianity and the world in which it originated.

The Ethics of the Enactment and Reception of Cruciform Love

Author : John Frederick
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
ISBN 13 : 316155261X
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (615 download)

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Download or read book The Ethics of the Enactment and Reception of Cruciform Love written by John Frederick and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2019-07-29 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Back cover: In this book, John Frederick critiques the view that Paul was operating from a Hellenistic understanding of moral formation. Rather, the ethics of Colossians were derived from the Jewish Two Ways tradition reinterpreted through a theology of Christ-like transformation through the enactment and reception of cruciform love.

Christianity at Corinth

Author : Edward Adams
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN 13 : 9780664224783
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (247 download)

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Download or read book Christianity at Corinth written by Edward Adams and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Corinthians provides a unique glimpse info the life of a young Christian community in a Greco-Roman environment during the early decades of emerging Christianity. It supplies a range and richness of information about the early church that is unparalleled by any other New Testament document. Much effort has gone into reconstructing Christianity at Corinth; more recently, attention has focused on the Corinthian community itself. The scholarly picture of the Corinthian Christians throughout the period of modern interpretation has been far from constant, and their profile has altered as interpretive fashions have shifted. This collection of classic and new essays charts the history of the scholarly quest for the Corinthian church from F. C. Baur to the present day, and offers the reflections of leading scholars on where the quest has taken us and its future direction.

Paul and Patronage

Author : Joshua Rice
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725247933
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (252 download)

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Download or read book Paul and Patronage written by Joshua Rice and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2013-07-22 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The question of how leadership and authority functioned in the Pauline church remains one of the most polarizing issues in New Testament scholarship today. On the one side are egalitarian and counterimperial readings that stake their interpretation of the liberating gospel upon a depiction of the Pauline church as radically countercultural with regard to leadership and authority. On the other side are authoritarian readings that just as easily conceive of Paul as fully embedded within the cultural conceptions and structures of leadership and authority in vogue across the Greco-Roman world. This study employs social-science criticism to construct a model of ancient patronage conventions and power-exchange dynamics in the Greco-Roman world, and this model is then applied to 1 Corinthians. This study finds that when Paul addresses his own apostolic relationship to the Corinthians, he tends toward reinscribing traditional hierarchies, but that when Paul addresses relationships between participants of the Corinthian assembly, he tends toward overturning them.

Order and (Dis)order in the First Christian Century

Author : F. Gerald Downing
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004255818
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Order and (Dis)order in the First Christian Century written by F. Gerald Downing and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Articulate first century Mediterranean society, Jewish and Christian included, expressly favoured harmonious order in society, in individuals, in communication, and in thought. Its common basis was the patriarchal family, the rule of law, rational self-control, and rational thought. Yet there was also resistance to oppressive and unjust order in all spheres; and while law could be held educative, yet there were substantial first century critiques of law, not just Paul’s, and awareness that judicial procedures could be chaotic and biassed. Strands of such dissidence appear in Jesus and in Paul, with significant relevance for any understanding of the early Christian movement(s) and contemporary Judaism(s) in Graeco-Roman context, but also with important implications for any practical reflections and application.

The People beside Paul

Author : Joseph A. Marchal
Publisher : SBL Press
ISBN 13 : 1628370971
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (283 download)

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Download or read book The People beside Paul written by Joseph A. Marchal and published by SBL Press. This book was released on 2015-11-13 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who are the people beside Paul, and what can we know about them? This volume brings together an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars with a broad range of expertise and a common interest: Philippi in antiquity. Each essay engages one set of contextual particularities for Paul and the ordinary people of the Philippian assembly, while simultaneously placing them in wider settings. This 'people's history' uses both traditional and more cutting-edge methods to reconsider archaeology and architecture, economy and ethnicity, prisons and priestesses, slavery, syncretism, stereotypes of Jews, the colony of Philippi, and a range of communities. The contributors are Valerie Abrahamsen, Richard S. Ascough, Robert L. Brawley, Noelle Damico, Richard A. Horsley, Joseph A. Marchal, Mark D. Nanos, Peter Oakes, Gerardo Reyes Chavez, Angela Standhartinger, Eduard Verhoef, and Antoinette Clark Wire. Features An examination of the social forms and forces that shaped and affected the Philippian church Essays offer insight into standard questions about the letter s hymn and audience, Paul's 'opponents,' and the sites of the community and of Paul's imprisonment A focused exploration of more marginalized topics and groups, including women, slaves, Jews, and members of localized cults

Handbook for the Study of the Historical Jesus (4 vols)

Author : Tom Holmén
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004210210
Total Pages : 3739 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Handbook for the Study of the Historical Jesus (4 vols) written by Tom Holmén and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010-12-24 with total page 3739 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With ca. 120 articles from ca. 100 writers from ca. 20 countries, this publication forms a repository where students and scholars can readily get to know their way around the breadth of recent research on the historical Jesus.

The Educated Elite in 1 Corinthians

Author : Robert Dutch
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567104613
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (671 download)

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Download or read book The Educated Elite in 1 Corinthians written by Robert Dutch and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2005-06-04 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the educated elite in 1 Corinthians through the development, and application, of an ancient education model. The research reads Paul's text within the social world of early Christianity and uses social-scientific criticism in reconstructing a model that is appropriate for first-century Corinth. Pauline scholars have used models to reconstruct elite education but this study highlights their oversight in recognising the relevancy of the Greek Gymnasium for education. Topics are examined in 1 Corinthians to demonstrate where the model advances an understanding of Paul's interaction with the elite Corinthian Christians in the context of community conflict. This study demonstrates the important contribution that this ancient education model makes in interpreting 1 Corinthians in a Graeco-Roman context. This is Volume 271 of JSNTS.

The Warning-Assurance Relationship in 1 Corinthians

Author : Andrew J. Wilson
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
ISBN 13 : 9783161551314
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (513 download)

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Download or read book The Warning-Assurance Relationship in 1 Corinthians written by Andrew J. Wilson and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2017-10-27 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul's first letter to the Corinthians contains both emphatic warnings and strong statements of assurance, and the relationship between them has often puzzled interpreters. At times, it sounds as if Paul is warning the Corinthians lest they forfeit their eschatological salvation; at others, it sounds like he is assuring them that they will not. Attempts to harmonise the two stances have often ended up nullifying the warnings, or the assurances, or both. In this fresh analysis of all the relevant texts, Andrew J. Wilson demonstrates that Paul's warnings and assurances stand in tension with each other, and suggests that this tension is both coherent, and, in actual fact, deliberate on Paul's part. Discussions of perseverance and apostasy in Paul, grace and works, and the relationship between divine and human agency, will all now need to reckon with this important contribution.

Fabrics of Discourse

Author : Vernon Kay Robbins
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9781563383656
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (836 download)

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Download or read book Fabrics of Discourse written by Vernon Kay Robbins and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2003-11-15 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Honors the great range and penetrating insights of Vernon Robbins' work.

Jesus, Mark and Q

Author : Andreas Schmidt
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9780567042002
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Jesus, Mark and Q written by Andreas Schmidt and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2004-12-19 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first part of this collection is devoted to one of the key questions of the 'Synoptic Problem': the literary and christological relationship between Mark and Q. The second part deals with the 'Third Quest' for the historical Jesus, concentrating on his teaching and its cultural context. These interrelated themes each attract detailed analysis of their methodology as well as their impact on New Testament studies generally, providing a very useful introduction to the state of research in these important fields.