Making Sense In And Of The First Christian Century
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Making Sense In And Of The First Christian Century
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Author : Francis Gerald Downing
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2000-08-01
Making Sense In And Of The First Christian Century written by Francis Gerald Downing and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-08-01 with Religion categories.
The first Christian century must be approached with careful attention to its cultural and linguistic heterogeneity. It should not simply be assumed that this past 'is a different place, they do things differently there'. Downing treats the ways in which early Christians tried to 'make things make sense' within their cultures, noting both the similarities and differences between their ways and contemporary ones and stressing the variety of contexts and influences on first-century communication. Downing brings his renowned expertise to bear in illuminating the cultural features of early Christian society with a range of fascinating and telling examples.
Order And Dis Order In The First Christian Century
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Author : F. Gerald Downing
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2013-08-01
Order And Dis Order In The First Christian Century written by F. Gerald Downing and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08-01 with Religion categories.
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.
Making Sense In And Of The First Christian Century
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Author : Francis Gerald Downing
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2000-08-01
Making Sense In And Of The First Christian Century written by Francis Gerald Downing and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-08-01 with Religion categories.
The first Christian century must be approached with careful attention to its cultural and linguistic heterogeneity. It should not simply be assumed that this past 'is a different place, they do things differently there'. Downing treats the ways in which early Christians tried to 'make things make sense' within their cultures, noting both the similarities and differences between their ways and contemporary ones and stressing the variety of contexts and influences on first-century communication. Downing brings his renowned expertise to bear in illuminating the cultural features of early Christian society with a range of fascinating and telling examples.
Formation For Knowing God
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Author : F. Gerald Downing
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2015-04-29
Formation For Knowing God written by F. Gerald Downing and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-29 with Religion categories.
"God is Self-Revealed" we are assured by many Christians today. Yet this conviction stems only from eighteenth-century Enlightenment debates. Early and ongoing Christians, with their Jewish roots, trusted God as a committed and saving but heavily clouded presence (whether by God's choice, or our inadequacy, or both). Continuing Christian tradition has thus insisted that there is much more to this God than we can hope to get our heads round. Yet such Christians have trusted that this loving, saving, triune God's purpose is to transform us Godward. "The divine Word became as we are so we might become as he is." Meanwhile, some of us at least can find ourselves drawn to share with our predecessors and one another in imagining how this may be. And then we may be drawn to realize in practice what we imagine--in active service to God among fellow humans and all God's fragile creation. Then, we may hope, we may have been brought to know God more nearly as God is. Gerald Downing first argued this fifty years ago, and here he restates the issues with fresh insights and renewed hope.
Doing Things With Words In The First Christian Century
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Author : Francis Gerald Downing
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2000-10-01
Doing Things With Words In The First Christian Century written by Francis Gerald Downing and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-10-01 with Religion categories.
Although its religious heritage was that of a variegated Judaism, the tiny early Christian movement was nevertheless much more complexly and richly linked with the Graeco-Roman world in which it came to birth than is usually allowed for. In particular, 'ordinary' people were capable of a sophisticated use of words that can be detected also in the New Testament writings. But the use of words in Graeco-Roman times was often very different from what we suppose, and this collection of studies attempts to identify some of the anachronisms that still pervade even the best of modern scholarship.
The New Testament As Reception
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Author : Mogens M Ller
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2002-08-27
The New Testament As Reception written by Mogens M Ller and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-08-27 with Religion categories.
In this book a new concept is systematically explored: that of the New Testament as a "reception" of various antecedents. Three chapters cover its reception of the Old Testament, of Second Temple Judaism and of Graeco-Roman culture. Three further chapters explore the reception of Jesus, using as examples the Synoptic parables, Matthew's Messianic Teacher, and the Christology of the Book of Revelation. Paul is considered in a chapter on his reception in Acts, and three final chapters survey broader themes: feminist reception, reception history within the New Testament (using the Annunciation as an example), and translation.
Holy Word
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Author : J. Arthur Baird
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2002-06-01
Holy Word written by J. Arthur Baird and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-06-01 with Religion categories.
J. Arthur Baird is the author of several important books in New Testament studies, his best known perhaps being his Audience Criticism and the Historical Jesus. At his untimely death, he left a nearly complete manuscript, now published here. In this timely and relevant manuscript, Baird offers first a critical introduction to the historical paradigm, pointing out its limitations in terms of tracing the paradigm of New Testament formation. He then traces this development himself, beginning with the starting point of the Holy Word and noting its development through the context, theological interpretation, and application, to its manifestation in the apostles, schools and fathers. He concludes with comments on its current implications. This book represents the last and lasting final thoughts of a scholar who was very much devoted to the importance of the Holy Word.
Family Matters
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Author : Trevor Burke
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2003-10-01
Family Matters written by Trevor Burke and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-10-01 with Religion categories.
Paul's first letter to the Thessalonians boasts a preponderance of fictive kinship terms (e.g. father, children, nursing mother, brother etc). In this book, Burke shows that Paul is drawing on the normal social expectations of family members in antiquity to regulate the affairs of the community. Family metaphors would have resonated immediately with Paul's readers and the author surveys a broad range of ancient texts to identify stock meanings of the father-child and brother-brother relations. These stereotypical attitudes are explored to understand Paul's paternal relations (2:10-12) with his Thessalonian children and in resolving sexual immorality (4:3-8) and the refusal by some brothers to work (4:9-12; 5:12-15). This study has implications for the structure of early Christian communities.
Women And Men In The Fourth Gospel
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Author : Margaret Beirne
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2004-12-10
Women And Men In The Fourth Gospel written by Margaret Beirne and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-12-10 with Religion categories.
e fourth gospel presents the reader with an early christian text in which women and men are treated as "a discipleship of equals" as this term is broadly understood in the work of Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza but qualified with respect to her discussion of the meaning of 'equality' when applied to gender. Specifically, the gospel contains six examples of "gender pairs" of characters (a widely-accepted lukan feature). The members of each pair are portrayed in a parallel or contrasting faith encounter with the Johannine Jesus which is of substantial theological importance to the gospel's stated purpose (John 20:31). The six pairs are the mother of Jesus (2:1-11) and the royal official (4:46-54); nicodemus (3:1-12) and the samaritan woman (4:4-42); the man born blind (9:1-41) and Martha (11:1-54); Mary of Bethany and Judas (12:1-8); the mother of Jesus and the beloved disciple (19:25-27); Mary Magdalene (20:11-18) and Thomas (20:24-29).
New Light On Luke
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Author : Barbara Shellard
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2004-10-27
New Light On Luke written by Barbara Shellard and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-10-27 with Religion categories.
This radical new interpretation reveals many connections between Luke and Johannine traditions. Comparision of pericopae shared by Luke and John suggests that the usual assumptions of Lukan priority may be mistaken; instead his may be chronologically the fourth gospel. Luke neverthless treats his sources in different ways, his response being both critical and creative. He aims to give security to Christians by including as much as possible and reconciling conflicting traditions, while firmly excluding heretical misinterpretation. Shellard also includes a consideration of Luke's use of possible sources, both canonical and extra-canonical, and places Luke-Acts in its literary context, noting among other things the presentation of Rome as a facilitatator of evangelization and a promoter of co-existence. This is volume 215 in the Journal for the Study of the New Testament Supplement series.