Book Description
This innovative volume is the first English-language monograph to compare Paul's Corinthian church with contemporary cult groups from Mediterranean antiquity.
Author : Richard Last
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 10,12 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 1107100631
This innovative volume is the first English-language monograph to compare Paul's Corinthian church with contemporary cult groups from Mediterranean antiquity.
Author : Richard Last
Publisher :
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 37,85 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9781316421208
This innovative volume is the first English-language monograph to compare Paul's Corinthian church with contemporary cult groups from Mediterranean antiquity.
Author : Young-Ho Park
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 38,8 MB
Release : 2015-04-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783161530609
How did Paul's term ekklesia formulate the Christian self-understanding? Young-Ho Park finds the answer in its strong civic connotation in the politico-cultural world of the Greek East under the Roman Empire. By addressing his local Gentile congregation as ekklesia in his letters, Paul effectively created a symbolic universe in which the Christ-worshippers saw themselves as the honorable citizens who represented the city before God. (Publisher).
Author : James Vernon Bartlet
Publisher :
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 15,62 MB
Release : 1902
Category : Bible
ISBN :
Author : Margaret Y. MacDonald
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 45,96 MB
Release : 2004-12-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780521616058
The author claims that development can be traced since we have not only letters from Paul himself, but also the Pastoral epistles from the beginning of the second century, as well as Ephesians and Colossians, writings which are characteristic of the ambiguous period following the disappearance of the earliest authorities.
Author : Vincent Branick
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 11,33 MB
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1620320290
"The study of the house church, we will see, takes us to the heart of many basic issues in early Christianity. We will focus on Paul's churches, but we must look to other later texts, both New Testament and extra-biblical, for insights and hints about the nature of the communities. Because the existence of such house churches was not an issue for him, Paul says little directly about them as such. His instructions about church life, however, become more understandable when read from the perspective of a household communitiy and at the same time shed light on these groups."--Introduction
Author : Jorunn Økland
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 16,71 MB
Release : 2005-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0567012700
In Women in Their Place Jorunn Økland takes the archaeological remains at Corinth as a starting point from which to develop an interdisciplinary, theoretically informed reading of Paul's utterances on women in 1 Corinthians 11-14. In this section of the letter Paul deals with the ritual gatherings and describes the ekklesia as a of ritual space distinct from domestic space. Økland assesses the text within a larger context of four different gender models found in temple architecture, rituals and literary texts. Whilst Paul's teaching in the letter effectively engendered 'church' as male space, his use of a variety of gender models left early Christian women with many other notions of ritual space to explore.
Author : Corin Mihaila
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 22,39 MB
Release : 2009-06-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 056762823X
Research into the social and rhetorical background of the Corinthian church, shows that the Corinthians were evaluating their leaders based on their rhetorical prowess, seeking to associate with those who would enhance their status and honour. The coherence of Paul's argument in 1 Corinthians 1-4 is evaluated, particularly by showing how Paul's discourse of the cross and Sophia relate to the issue of the dissensions in the Corinthian ekklesia. Once demonstrated that there is a misunderstanding of wisdom amongst church leaders at the basis of the dissensions, a redefinition of the wisdom offered in Corinthians is required. In what could be considered the locus of Paul's theology of proclamation (i.e., 1 Corinthians 2:1-5), he rejects any employment of worldly wisdom in his proclamation of the cross for theological reasons and will not allow himself or other leaders to be drawn into this game of personality cult and honour enhancement. Such conclusions then raise the question of the role played by Apollos' name in Paul's argument against dissensions. After a review of several possible views, it is concluded-based primarily on exegetical grounds and refusing to engage in hermeneutical speculations-that Paul had a congenial relationship with Apollos. If any distinction is drawn between the two, it was solely the Corinthians' fault, who viewed their preachers in competitive rather than complementary terms.
Author : Margaret M. Mitchell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 24,89 MB
Release : 2010-10-28
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 0521197953
This book shows how in the Corinthian letters Paul was fashioning the principles that later authors would use to interpret scripture. This engagingly written demonstration of the hermeneutical impact of Paul's correspondence on early Christian exegetes also illustrates a new way to think about the history of reception of biblical texts.
Author : Paton James Gloag
Publisher :
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 10,48 MB
Release : 1874
Category : Bible
ISBN :