LEAVING LAODICEA
Author : Steve McCranie
Publisher :
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 42,30 MB
Release : 2016-12-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780977155835
The Letters to Philemon, the Colossians, and the Ephesians
Author : Ben Witherington
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 35,38 MB
Release : 2007-11-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1467423556
Book Description
This volume completes Ben Witherington's contributions to the set of Eerdmans socio-rhetorical commentaries on the New Testament. In addition to the usual features of these commentaries, Witherington offers an innovative way of looking at Colossians, Ephesians, and Philemon as interrelated documents written at different levels of moral discourse. Colossians is first-order moral discourse (the opening gambit), Ephesians is second-order moral discourse (what one says after the opening salvo to the same audience), and Philemon is third-order moral discourse (what one says to a personal friend or intimate). Witherington successfully analyzes these documents as examples of Asiatic rhetoric, explaining the differences in style from earlier Pauline documents. He further shows that Paul is deliberately engaging in the transformation of existing social institutions. As always, Witherington's work is scholarly and engaging. With detailed "Closer Look" sections, The Letters to Philemon, the Colossians, and the Ephesians is perfect for the libraries of clergy, biblical scholars, and seminaries.
Philemon in Perspective
Author : D. Francois Tolmie
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 34,56 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Religion
ISBN : 311022173X
Book Description
This book is dedicated entirely to the interpretation of Paul's Letter to Philemon. The letter is approached from a wide variety of perspectives, thus yielding several new insights into its interpretation. In a first essay the tendencies in the research on the letter since 1980 are outlined. This is followed by essays devoted to the epistolary analysis and to a rhetorical-psychological interpretation of the letter; as well as an essay devoted to the rhetorical function of stylistic form in the letter. After this there are two essays devoted to situating the letter in its ancient context: one views the letter against the background of ancient legal and documentary sources and another one against the background of slavery in early Christianity. The next two essays focus on theological aspects, namely on the letter as ethical counterpart of Paul's doctrine of justification and on the role that love plays in the letter. Three essays focus on ideological issues: the contextual interpretation of the letter in the US, a post-colonial reading of the letter and the letter's legacy of hierarchy and obedience. The volume concludes with four essays on the way in which the letter was interpreted by the some of the Church Fathers: Origen, Jerome, Chrystostom, Augustine and Theodore of Mopsuestia.
The Letters to the Colossians and to Philemon
Author : Douglas J. Moo
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 37,62 MB
Release : 2008-08-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0802837271
Book Description
Exhibiting the same brilliant exegesis and sound practical insight found in his previous works, noted commentator Douglas J. Moo in this new volume not only explains accurately the meaning of the letters to the Colossians and to Philemon but also applies that meaning powerfully to twenty-first-century readers. Moo both interacts with the Greek text of these letters and clearly explains the English text to a contemporary audience. Informed, evangelical, methodologically astute, and displaying a careful balance between good scholarship and pastoral concern -- earmarks of the Pillar New Testament Commentary series as a whole -- Moo's Letters to the Colossians and to Philemon will offer insights to a wide range of readers, from teachers and students, to pastors and parishioners, to scholars and laypersons.
Our Brother Beloved
Author : Senior Lecturer in Biblical Studies Stephen E Young
Publisher :
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,23 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Bible
ISBN : 9781481315319
Book Description
"Draws on Positioning Theory to offer a fresh reading of Philemon and challenge traditional interpretations that argue for a pro-slavery perspective in the letter"--
A Socio-Rhetorical Interpretation of the Letter to Philemon in Light of the New Institutional Economics
Author : Alex Hon Ho Ip
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,74 MB
Release : 2017-09-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783161547287
Book Description
In this study, Alex Hon Ho Ip argues that when Paul wrote to Philemon about Onesimus, his main purpose was not to try and reunite, as is widely held, a runaway slave with his master, but rather to have Onesimus accepted as a beloved brother in Christ. By examining the letter's inner texture, the author shows that Paul's main concern was for Philemon and Onesimus to be reconciled in brotherly love. The inter-textual weave reveals Paul's theological and ethical thoughts on love, which is the basis for the apostle's main argument. By taking a new institutional economics approach to help reconstruct the economic relationship between slave and master, Alex Hon Ho Ip is able to offer a better understanding of the original relationship Paul argued against. With all this in mind, the focus is on re-reading the letter and hearing how Paul's rhetoric exhorts a new relationship between Onesimus and Philemon.
Popular Lectures on the Books of the New Testament
Author : Augustus Hopkins Strong
Publisher :
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 16,96 MB
Release : 1914
Category : Bible
ISBN :
Book Description
Colossians and Philemon
Author : David W. Pao
Publisher : Zondervan Academic
Page : 631 pages
File Size : 43,47 MB
Release : 2016-05-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0310532140
Book Description
Concentrate on the biblical author's message as it unfolds. Designed to assist the pastor and Bible teacher in conveying the significance of God's Word, the Zondervan Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament series treats the literary context and structure of every passage of the New Testament book in the original Greek. With a unique layout designed to help you comprehend the form and flow of each passage, the ZECNT unpacks: The key message. The author's original translation. An exegetical outline. Verse-by-verse commentary. Theology in application. While primarily designed for those with a basic knowledge of biblical Greek, all who strive to understand and teach the New Testament will benefit from the depth, format, and scholarship of these volumes.
Onesimus Our Brother
Author : Matthew V. Johnson
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 44,15 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1451410212
Book Description
Matthew V. Johnson is senior pastor at The Good Shepherd Church (Baptist) in Atlanta. --
God's Masterwork Study Series
Author : Charles R. Swindoll
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 10,42 MB
Release : 1997-02-18
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780849987380
Book Description
A life-changing journey through all sixty-six books in the Bible. Each volume in these study guides combine the classic insights from Swindoll with the timeless truths from the Bible.
