Paul And The Roman House Churches

Author : Reta H. Finger
Publisher : Wipf and Stock
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1532666845

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Paul and the Roman House Churches by Reta H. Finger Pdf

In AD 57 or 58, the apostle Paul sent his faithful coworker and patron Phoebe on an eight-hundred-mile journey to deliver a letter to all the Christians in Rome. He was concerned about racial, lifestyle, and political tensions in the house-church groups there. Some believers were more conservative, some more liberal. How could they live in unity and help Paul in his mission? Today we have Paul's letter but know little about its historical context. Yet similar tensions still trouble churches. Too often Romans has been misused to divide Christians from Jews, or Christians from each other. Finger claims we cannot understand Romans for our day unless we grasp its original setting. She guides users of the book to re-create house churches as in first-century Rome. Participants assume various roles and hear Phoebe proclaim Paul's message afresh. They will not all agree on what Paul means. Where they do catch his meaning, they may not accept it. How does Jesus' gospel teach them to get along together when they can't agree? This book will also benefit individual readers, and the learning through simulation is adaptable to groups of many ages and levels of education, biblical awareness, and spiritual maturity. Diversity stimulates and enhances discussion! The goal is to hear and apply the message of Romans to our lives today -- and have fun in the process!

Author : Reta Halteman Finger
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2007-09-14
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780802807649

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Roman House Churches for Today by Reta Halteman Finger Pdf

Placing the biblical book of Romans in its historical and cultural context, Reta Halteman Finger here creates a simulation of the Roman house churches that first heard Paul's Romans letter and its call for inclusiveness among the people of God. Finger guides readers in small groups to re-create house churches as in first-century Rome. Based on the text of Romans, participants play various roles and converse, even debate, with other characters from different ethnic and religious backgrounds. This experiential approach makes Romans come alive in new, concrete ways and applies Romans theology to current issues that often still divide groups of Christians. Roman House Churches for Today includes aids and suggestions for simulation leaders, sample character sketches, and website links with resources for further, deeper study. Not only small groups but also individuals will profit from this unique Bible study.

Author : Vincent Branick
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781620320297

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The House Church in the Writings of Paul by Vincent Branick Pdf

"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 : Reta H. Finger
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2006-01-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781597525411

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Paul and the Roman House Churches by Reta H. Finger Pdf

In AD 57 or 58, the apostle Paul sent his faithful coworker and patron Phoebe on an eight-hundred-mile journey to deliver a letter to all the Christians in Rome. He was concerned about racial, lifestyle, and political tensions in the house-church groups there. Some believers were more conservative, some more liberal. How could they live in unity and help Paul in his mission? Today we have Paul's letter but know little about its historical context. Yet similar tensions still trouble churches. Too often Romans has been misused to divide Christians from Jews, or Christians from each other. Finger claims we cannot understand Romans for our day unless we grasp its original setting. She guides users of the book to re-create house churches as in first-century Rome. Participants assume various roles and hear Phoebe proclaim Paul's message afresh. They will not all agree on what Paul means. Where they do catch his meaning, they may not accept it. How does Jesus' gospel teach them to get along together when they can't agree? This book will also benefit individual readers, and the learning through simulation is adaptable to groups of many ages and levels of education, biblical awareness, and spiritual maturity. Diversity stimulates and enhances discussion! The goal is to hear and apply the message of Romans to our lives today -- and have fun in the process!

Author : John E. Toews
Publisher : MennoMedia, Inc.
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2004-07-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780836198027

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Romans by John E. Toews Pdf

Romans was written by Paul, apostle of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles. As an apostle Paul spent his life traveling the Mediterranean area preaching the gospel and establishing churches. In the course of his missionary career, Paul wrote numerous letters to the churches he had established as a way to pastor them in his absence. Romans is the longest and most complex of Paul’s letters. John E. Toews explores why Paul writes to remind the Roman churches of God’s purpose for both Jew and Gentile and to reconcile Jewish-Christian and Jewish-Gentile church relationships.

Author : Carolyn Osiek
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2009-12-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1451413556

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A Woman's Place by Carolyn Osiek Pdf

This focused look at women in the household context discusses the importance of issues of space and visibility in shaping the lives of early Christian women. Several aspects of women's everyday existence are investigated, including the lives of wives, widows, women with children, female slaves, women as patrons, household leaders, and teachers. In addition, several key themes emerge: hospitality, dining practices, and the extent of female segregation.

Author : David L. Balch
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 3161493834

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Roman Domestic Art and Early House Churches by David L. Balch Pdf

Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Rome have yielded hundreds of wall paintings from domestic buildings. Greek myths and tragedies, especial by Euripides were visually represented. Balch presents an interdisciplinary study inquiring what earliest Jews and Christian in such houses might have been seeing as they read and interpreted scripture and performed core rituals, especially the Eucharist. This recent study of Roman domestic architecture suggests new perspectives on the social history of early Christianity.--Publisher.

Author : Stephen Spence
Publisher : Peeters Publishers
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Christianity
ISBN : 9042913363

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The Parting of the Ways by Stephen Spence Pdf

This book seeks to inject into the general discussion of the "Parting of the Ways" of Judaism and Christianity the social realities of the separation of a particular Christian community and a particular Jewish community. By drawing upon the literary and the historical data available concerning the church in Rome, Spence seeks to discover when and how Christians came to see themselves as an identifiably distinct community. His findings will surprise those who see the "Parting of the Ways" as a slow process. He argues that although the "parting" was early, it was not without its complications. Drawing upon the work of Rodney Stark, a sociologist of religion, Spence suggests that within the church in Rome there was a struggle between those who saw the church as a Jewish sect and those who saw the church as a Roman cult - a struggle already underway when the Apostle Paul wrote Romans. This struggle, however, was not an even one, because it was the cultists, those for whom the church's primary social location was the pagans of Rome, who held the positions of power over the numerically smaller sectarians who sought to maintain the church's primary identity as a Jewish sect acceptable within the synagogues of Rome.

Author : James W. Thompson
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781441219657

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The Church according to Paul by James W. Thompson Pdf

Amid conflicting ideas about what the church should be and do in a post-Christian climate, the missing voice is that of Paul. The New Testament's most prolific church planter, Paul faced diverse challenges as he worked to form congregations. Leading biblical scholar James Thompson examines Paul's ministry of planting and nurturing churches in the pre-Christian world to offer guidance for the contemporary church. The church today, as then, must define itself and its mission among people who have been shaped by other experiences of community. Thompson shows that Paul offers an unprecedented vision of the community that is being conformed to the image of Christ. He also addresses contemporary (mis)understandings of words like missional, megachurch, and formation.

Author : Robert J. Banks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Bibles
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110426199

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Paul's Idea of Community by Robert J. Banks Pdf

Convinced that Paul s distinctive contribution to Christianity is his idea of community, Banks demonstrates how this notion informs Paul s instructions to his churches. In doing so, Banks . . . presents to us a Paul who, while always undergirding his directions to his churches theologically, grounds his teaching in the social realities of his readers." Abraham J. Malherbe, Yale University

Author : E. Earle Ellis
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2005-02-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725213319

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Pauline Theology by E. Earle Ellis Pdf

The book should provide a lively counterpoint to both the standard liberal and conservative treatments in courses on Paul's view of ministry. - Theology Today Ellis' judicious treatment and penetrating analysis of the relevant biblical material will force many of us...to think more precisely about the concept of ministry in Paul's writings, how ministry manifested itself in the churches of his day, and what are its implications for us today. - Westminster Theological Journal Ellis gives a sound critique of liberation theology and sociopolitical action as ministry. He gives a balanced view of the gifts and the fruit of the Spirit and, on biblical grounds, he defends the ordination of single and, with qualifications, married women. Challenging, but meant for the intelligent church member. -Librarian's World It's a gem. It is a delightful summary in popular form of themes that Ellis has been at work on throughout his years of productive scholarship. It is 'copiously footnoted...with concise bibliographies on the points at hand...Hence, this short book becomes encyclopedic. - Calvin Theological Journal A splendid tour de force in the best sense. - James G. D. Dunn These essays...represent in many respects a valuable corrective to much of what passes for biblical theology in our times. - Paul J. Achtemeier

Author : J. D. Payne
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2008-03-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830857067

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Missional House Churches by J. D. Payne Pdf

Using original interviews with over thirty missional house churches, J. D. Payne examines the influence of the house church movement on local communities throughout the United States.

Author : Peter Lampe
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2006-04-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781441110046

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Christians at Rome in the First Two Centuries by Peter Lampe Pdf

Investigating the rise and shape of the earliest churches in Rome, Lampe integrates history, archaeology, theology, and social analysis. He also takes a close look at inscriptional evidence to complement the reading of the great literary texts: from Paul's letter to the Romans to the writings of Clement of Rome, Montanus and Valentinus. 'I want to learn about the daily lives of the urban Roman Christians of the first two centuries, the realities of their social lives... my ultimate goal is to contribute at least one element to a multidimensional interpretation of texts and faith expressions of early Christianity.' Peter Lampe

Author : Robert J. Banks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Bible
ISBN : OCLC:29767407

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Paul's Idea of Community by Robert J. Banks Pdf

Author : Robert J. Banks
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781493421589

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Paul's Idea of Community by Robert J. Banks Pdf

This highly readable investigation of the early church explores the revolutionary nature, dynamics, and effects of the earliest Christian communities. It introduces readers to the cultural setting of the house churches of biblical times, examines the apostle Paul's vision of life in the Christian church, and explores how the New Testament model of community applies to Christian practice today. Updated and revised throughout, this 40th-anniversary edition incorporates recent research, updates the bibliography, and adds a new fictional narrative that depicts the life and times of the early church.