Conflict And Community In Corinth

Author : Ben Witherington
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1995-01-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781467418997

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Conflict and Community in Corinth by Ben Witherington Pdf

This unprecedented commentary applies an exegetical method informed by both sociological insight and rhetorical analysis to the study of 1 and 2 Corinthians. In addition to using traditional exegetical and historical methods, this unique study also analyzes the two letters of Paul in terms of Greco-Roman rhetoric and ancient social conditions and customs to shed fresh light on the context and content of Paul's message. Includes 21 black-and-white photos and illustrations.

Author : Anthony C. Thiselton
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 1488 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0853645590

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The First Epistle to the Corinthians by Anthony C. Thiselton Pdf

A new examination of a classic Christian text begins with the Greek text of the Corinthians and outlines the most important theological, ethical, and socio-historical issues surrounding this seminal book.

Author : Efrain Agosto
Publisher : Chalice Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0827235062

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Servant Leadership by Efrain Agosto Pdf

Servant Leadership addresses a fundamental concern of the contemporary church by asking pertinent questions of the New Testament: Who became a leader in the Jesus movement and in Pauline Christianity? What was the social status of these leaders in the outside world as compared to the importance of such social status within the faith community? What practices characterized their leadership within the communities they served? The book explores models of leadership in the New Testament s two prime exemplars, Jesus and Paul, and in their respective communities of faith. It studies both Paul s statements and actions with regard to leadership issues with specific church communities, using Thessalonians, the Corinthians, the Galatians, and the Philippians correspondence as case studies in the practice of leadership. It concludes with a discussion of leadership challenges in the modern church and how a Pauline or Deutero-Pauline model can work for us today. The author shows how understanding one s followers, as well as the goals and purposes of the group one leads, is a fundamental function of leadership today, even in the corporate world. Similarly, although we expect Christian leadership to be confrontational and assertive at times, it must also be open to creating opportunities for others to exercise their gifts and, therefore, their leadership. Good leaders move others to respond to their own personal calls and commitments.

Author : David E. Garland
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781087730677

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2 Corinthians: The Christian Standard Commentary by David E. Garland Pdf

2 Corinthians is part of The Christian Standard Commentary (CSC) series. This commentary series focuses on the theological and exegetical concerns of each biblical book, while paying careful attention to balancing rigorous scholarship with practical application. This series helps the reader understand each biblical book's theology, its place in the broader narrative of Scripture, and its importance for the church today. Drawing on the wisdom and skills of dozens of evangelical authors, the CSC is a tool for enhancing and supporting the life of the church.

Author : Trevor J. Burke,Keith Elliott
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004268272

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Paul and the Corinthians: Studies on a Community in Conflict by Trevor J. Burke,Keith Elliott Pdf

This volume has 1 and 2 Corinthians as its main focus where the various contributors address significant aspects of text, language, background, theology and exegesis. The first part of the volume deals with the issues of textual criticism and traditions available to Paul, while the second section is interdisciplinary in nature and integrates different methodologies such as social-scientific and rhetorical criticism in order to provide new insights into the text. The third and longest section addresses the varied theological problems which the community raised with Paul, including sexual matters, the timing of the resurrection the resurrection body, authority and headship, soteriology, and the question of Paul's faithfulness and integrity. The final section concentrates on the identity of Paul's opponents, his visions and apologetics.

Author : Panayotis Coutsoumpos
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725235298

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Community, Conflict, and the Eucharist in Roman Corinth by Panayotis Coutsoumpos Pdf

Rich in content and meaning, Paul's letter to the Corinthians is an important element in the study of the social and theological issues of early Christian teachings. This new work outlines how the letter to Corinthians underscores the role of Pauline Christianity in shaping relationships within the Christian congregation and provides a unique picture of a new growing church in a Greco-Roman social environment.

Author : John Paul Heil
Publisher : Society of Biblical Lit
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Bible
ISBN : 9781589831674

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The Rhetorical Role of Scripture in 1 Corinthians by John Paul Heil Pdf

Author : George Renner,Mark Shaw
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725286849

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Ten Great Ideas from First Corinthians by George Renner,Mark Shaw Pdf

First Corinthians is one of the most relevant NT documents for both younger churches seeking maturity in the majority world and older churches seeking renewal in the Western world in the twenty-first century. The reason this epistle is so relevant is that it focuses on renewing the church through believing and living out the good news that because of Jesus’s death and resurrection God has begun his new creation agenda amid the broken world of today. This is not just another commentary (there are many very good ones) but rather we present a biblical theology of church renewal, based on solid exegesis, and our experience as teachers and pastors in both Africa and North America. This book will pull out the essential teaching of Paul on renewal in ten manageable principles, or “great ideas.” Church renewal is not just following certain steps but results from nurturing a culture that practices both cross power and a life of new creation hope. When churches make the shift from traditionalism to radical community and evangelical activism through a new experience of the gospel seen as both personal liberation and the transformation of all things, the church begins to move, and the world begins to change.

Author : Timothy KH Chong
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781512750492

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Strategies in Church Discipline from 1 Corinthians by Timothy KH Chong Pdf

This book seeks to recover the New Testament ideal of church discipline and to construct a holistic model for the Church in Asia. The Church has wrestled with the issue of discipline ever since her inception. Many of Pauls letters addressed the problems that had arisen in the communities that he had established. The thrust of church discipline in the New Testament was the formation of Christian character through the Word of God worked out in the process of discipleship through teaching, edification, admonition as well as banishing serious sin from the community. The ideal of church discipline in the New Testament is both Preventive Discipline and Punitive Discipline. As the Church became more institutionalized, there was a paradigm shift in the process of discipline. The New Testament ideal of discipline as a character formation was shifted to regulatory ordinances. This led to the development of a strict and regimented Christianity. Since then, church discipline had taken on a penitential and punitive direction. The book seeks to study Pauls management of the disciplinary problems in 1 Corinthians and then to construct a holistic model of church discipline for an Asian context.

Author : Tim MacBride
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781630877644

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Preaching the New Testament as Rhetoric by Tim MacBride Pdf

Since the rise of the "New Homiletic" a generation ago, it has been recognized that sermons not only say something to listeners, they also do something. A truly expository sermon will seek not merely to say what the biblical text said, but also to do what the biblical text did in the lives of its original audience. In Preaching the New Testament as Rhetoric, MacBride looks how at the discipline of rhetorical criticism can help preachers discern the function of a New Testament text in its original setting as a means of crafting a sermon that can function similarly in contemporary contexts. Focusing on the letters of Paul, he shows how understanding them in light of Greco-Roman speech conventions can suggest ways by which preachers can communicate not just the content of the letters, but also their function. In this way, the power of the text itself can be harnessed, leading to sermons that inform and, most importantly, transform.

Author : Emmanuel Nathan
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783161576874

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Re-membering the New Covenant at Corinth by Emmanuel Nathan Pdf

"Did Paul instigate Christianity's separation from Judaism, if one considers the stark polemical contrasts of 'new' and 'old' covenant in 2 Cor 3? Emmanuel Nathan argues that Paul reconfigured traditions and memories shaping the identity of his community at Corinth." --back cover

Author : Jeon Ahn Yongnan
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004397170

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Interpretation of Tongues and Prophecy in 1 Corinthians 12-14, with a Pentecostal Hermeneutics by Jeon Ahn Yongnan Pdf

Bringing “spiritual experience” into the domain of biblical hermeneutics, this book will certainly stimulate current debates within this field, among both Pentecostals and Christians of other traditions. The author also applies a Pentecostal hermeneutical methodology to Paul’s teaching on tongues and prophecy in 1 Corinthians 12–14, opening possibilities to a Pentecostal pneumatology that tends instead to focus on the Lukan narrative. Paul’s texts are reconsidered not as doctrinal or situational documents but as dynamic communication within a living community.

Author : Ben Witherington III
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 20174-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781451489507

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Jesus the Seer by Ben Witherington III Pdf

Increasingly, scholars recognize that prophetic traditions, expressions, and experiences stand at the heart of most religions in the ancient Mediterranean world. This is no less true for the world of Judaism and Jesus. Ben Witherington III offers an extensive, cross-cultural survey of the broader expressions of prophecy in its ancient Mediterranean context, beginning with Mari, moving to biblical figures not often regarded as prophets‒‒Balaam, Deborah, Moses, and Aaron‒‒and to the apocalyptic seer in postexilic prophecy, showing that no single pattern describes all prophetic figures. The consequence is that different aspects of Jesus’s activity touch upon prophetic predecessors: his miracles, on Elijah and Elisha; his self-understanding as the Son of Man, on Daniel and 1 Enoch; his warnings of woe and judgment, on the “writing prophets” in Judean tradition; and his messianic entry into Jerusalem, on Zechariah 9. Witherington also surveys the phenomenon of apocalyptic prophecy in early Christianity, including Paul, Revelation, the Didache, Hermas, and the Montanist movement. Jesus the Seer is a worthy complement to Witherington’s other volume on Jesus, Jesus the Sage (Fortress Press, 2000).

Author : Gillian Townsley
Publisher : SBL Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780884141754

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The Straight Mind in Corinth by Gillian Townsley Pdf

A new reading that troubles and transgresses the normal with regard to biblical studies and our understandings of gender and sexuality Despite its lack of both historical and exegetical clarity, 1 Corinthians 11:2-16 has often been fundamental to understandings of gender and sexuality in many Christian traditions. In particular, a hierarchical model of gender and a heterosexual model of sexuality tend to dominate and are presented as “natural” and “God-ordained.” With the materialist lesbian theory of Monique Wittig providing the theoretical basis for discussion, this book intersects various biblical, theological, and queer lines of inquiry across 1 Corinthians 11:2-16 in order to reveal and challenge these models of gender and sexuality that lie behind both the text itself and its various interpretations. Features Reveals the complex relationship between effeminacy, masculinity and sexual relations in the first century Greco-Roman environment of the New Testament Explores the ideologies of sexuality that underlie much of the debate within evangelical circles Examines Karl Barth’s theology on the binary pairing of “man and woman” as asymmetrically related to each other and to God through the notion of the imago dei, revealing and challenging the ways in which this reflects androcentric and patriarchal ideologies

Author : James E. Schultz
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725277205

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The Real Royal Family by James E. Schultz Pdf

God made human beings in his image and that is what makes us so valuable. Yet there are vastly different ideas of what the image means and how sin affects the image, and each of those ideas impacts the claim that the image grounds human value. People have treated one another in either horrible or wonderful ways based on their theologies of the image. This book examines the logical implications of various image doctrines in the real world. Also, in Genesis 1:26-27, the image of God is closely tied to the first stated purposes of human life in Genesis 1:28. Yet such practical purposes seem remote from the private spirituality of the gospel story often heard in churches. To live out our part in God's creation project, we need to understand the image of God within the unfolding story Scripture narrates from creation to new creation. This book builds a theology of the image of God by situating it firmly in the biblical narrative, harnessing the insights of biblical theology, and conversing with theologians past and present to form a coherent story of God, his children, and his creation in this age and the age to come.