What Are They Saying About The Formation Of Pauline Churches

Author : Richard S. Ascough
Publisher : Paulist Press
ISBN 13 : 0809137682
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What are They Saying about the Formation of Pauline Churches? written by Richard S. Ascough and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The early church was made up of a myriad of local churches, each with different settings, problems and ideas regarding how its community should be structured. What Are They Saying About the Formation of Pauline Churches? surveys the different models available in the Greco-Roman period for understanding how Paul's Christian groups ordered their communities. There are four models: the synagogue, the philosophical school, the ancient mystery cult and the voluntary association. Dr. Ascough devotes a chapter to each model and to the authors who use it to understand Pauline churches. The archaeological and literary data are coordinated with data from the Pauline letters to reveal the strengths and weaknesses of the models for understanding these churches. In the end, all four models are helpful and no one model is adequate to explain all the aspects of each Pauline church. This is a superb book for those seeking an overall view of the debate on the culture and organization of the first Christian communities. +

Author : Richard Last
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107100631
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pauline Church and the Corinthian Ekklēsia written by Richard Last and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative volume is the first English-language monograph to compare Paul's Corinthian church with contemporary cult groups from Mediterranean antiquity.

Author : Barclay
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 080287374X
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pauline Churches and Diaspora Jews written by Barclay and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2016 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminal essays from a leading New Testament scholar For the past twenty years, John Barclay has researched and written on the social history of early Christianity and the life of Jews in the Mediterranean Diaspora. In this collection of nineteen noteworthy essays, he examines points of comparison between the early churches and the Diaspora synagogues in the urban Roman world of the first century. With an eye to such matters as food, family, money, circumcision, Spirit, age, and death, Barclay examines key Pauline texts, the writings of Josephus, and other sources, investigating the construction of early Christian identity and comparing the experience of Paul's churches with that of Diaspora Jewish communities scattered throughout the Roman Empire.

Author : Stanley E. Porter
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004242112
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Paul and His Social Relations written by Stanley E. Porter and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-11-13 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume addresses many of the questions surrounding Paul and his social relations, including how to define and analyze such relations, their relationship to Paul's historical and social context, how Paul related to numerous friends and foes, and the implications for understanding Paul's letters as well as his theology.

Author : Claire S. Smith
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
ISBN 13 : 9783161519635
Total Pages : 586 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pauline Communities as 'scholastic Communities' written by Claire S. Smith and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2012 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edwin Judge's description of early Christian communities as 'scholastic communities' provides the starting point of a search for a sociological description of the Christian communities portrayed in 1 Corinthians, 1 and 2 Timothy and Titus. An original methodology uses a multi-layered exegetical approach to study every occurrence of the vocabulary of 'teaching' in the letters. The focus is on the activity of teaching (e.g., participants, method, manner, purpose, result, etc). The vocabulary represents ten semantic groupings, which shed further light on the place and practice of education in the communities ( core-teaching, speaking, traditioning, announcing, revealing, worshipping, commanding, correcting, remembering / imitation, and false teaching ). Claire S. Smith supports and develops Judge's 1960 description, advancing on it by showing that the communities are better described as 'learning communities' with horizontal (human-human) and vertical (divine-human) dimensions.

Author : John P. Harrison
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 160899998X
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Testament Church written by John P. Harrison and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christian communities today face enormous challenges in the new contexts and teachings that try to redefine what churches should be. Christians look to the New Testament for a pattern for the church, but the New Testament does not present a totally uniform picture of the structure, leadership, and sacraments practiced by first-century congregations. There was a unity of the Christian communities centered on the teaching that Jesus is the Christ, whom God has raised from the dead and has enthroned as Lord, yet not every assembly did exactly the same thing and saw themselves in exactly the same way. Rather, in the New Testament we find a collage of rich theological insights into what it means to be the church. When leaders of today see this diversity, they can look for New Testament ecclesiologies that are most relevant to the social and cultural context in which their community lives. This volume of essays, written with the latest scholarship, highlights the uniqueness of individual ecclesiologies of the various New Testament documents and their core unifying themes.

Author : Mark J. Zia
Publisher : Paulist Press
ISBN 13 : 0809146991
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What Are They Saying about Biblical Inspiration? written by Mark J. Zia and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six major scholars selected for their contributions in the study of biblical inspiration and who provide a veritable cross-section of the diversity of viewpoints on this topic as found in Anglo-American scholarship are surveyed. Abraham Heschel James Burtchaell Bruce Vawter William Abraham Kern Trembath Paul Achtemeier This presentation offers a constructive criticism of these insights from a Roman Catholic perspective, synthesizes their significant contributions, and shows the continuing dialogue among North American scholars in the field of biblical inspiration. A unique contribution of this book is that it affirms the traditional understanding of biblical inspiration as set forth by the Catholic Church, most notably in Dei Verbum of the Second Vatican Council, while at the same time positing the continuity between past biblical inspiration and present spiritual illumination. Book jacket.

Author : Mark Allan Powell
Publisher : Paulist Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809132799
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What are They Saying about Acts? written by Mark Allan Powell and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an overview of current scholarship on Acts that will serve as a suitable introduction to that book of the Bible.

Author : Daniel J. Harrington
Publisher : Paulist Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809143207
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What are They Saying about the Letter to the Hebrews? written by Daniel J. Harrington and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Arguably the greatest Christian sermon ever written, yet one of the more neglected and difficult writings in the New Testament, the Letter to the Hebrews is, says the author,"a long reflection on Jesus as the definitive means of access to God."" "This book surveys recent scholarship about Hebrews and the progress made in that scholarship, and informs prospective students and theologians of resources available to them." "Biblical scholars, theologians, students, and pastors will find this work to be stimulating and enriching on the biblical, theological, and pastoral levels."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Josephine Lombardi
Publisher : Paulist Press
ISBN 13 : 0809145626
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What are They Saying about the Universal Salvific Will of God? written by Josephine Lombardi and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Bible and tradition teach that God desires the salvation of all human beings. How has the church understood this idea through the ages, especially in relation to other Christian and non-Christian theologies? This book maps out the key developments in official church teaching on the universal salvific will of God, from the early church through the pontificate of Benedict XVI. The book discusses the paradigms of exclusivism, inclusivism, and pluralism, along with the parallel concepts of ecclesiocentrism, Christocentrism, and theocentrism. The author also provides a detailed review of recent contributions made by several prominent Catholic and Protestant theologians on this issue."--BOOK JACKET.