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Author : Günter Wagner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Baptism
ISBN : IND:32000007947593
Author : Donghyun Jeong
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110791389
This monograph provides an alternative model for looking at the old question about Paul and the mysteries in a new light. Specifically, this study compares rituals—baptism in the Pauline communities and the initiation rituals of the mysteries—through the lens of cultural anthropology and the sociology of religion. Three research questions lead the project: What benefits does each initiation ritual promise its participants? What are the underlying messages or structures that guarantee the efficacy of those rituals? How and to what extent is the initiation ritual connected to the participants’ cognition and ethics beyond initiation itself? Taking those questions as the analytical framework, this study substantiates two points: first, in terms of ritual messages, baptism in the Pauline communities is a ritual analogous to mystery initiation, and second, Paul is an innovative interpreter of ritual who recalibrates the messages of preexisting rituals for his theological and ethical program, seeking to radically extend the implications of initiation to the embodied life of every Christ-believer. Students and scholars of New Testament, early Christianity, classics, and ritual studies will benefit from engaging this volume.
Author : Donghyun Jeong
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110791501
This monograph provides an alternative model for looking at the old question about Paul and the mysteries in a new light. Specifically, this study compares rituals—baptism in the Pauline communities and the initiation rituals of the mysteries—through the lens of cultural anthropology and the sociology of religion. Three research questions lead the project: What benefits does each initiation ritual promise its participants? What are the underlying messages or structures that guarantee the efficacy of those rituals? How and to what extent is the initiation ritual connected to the participants’ cognition and ethics beyond initiation itself? Taking those questions as the analytical framework, this study substantiates two points: first, in terms of ritual messages, baptism in the Pauline communities is a ritual analogous to mystery initiation, and second, Paul is an innovative interpreter of ritual who recalibrates the messages of preexisting rituals for his theological and ethical program, seeking to radically extend the implications of initiation to the embodied life of every Christ-believer. Students and scholars of New Testament, early Christianity, classics, and ritual studies will benefit from engaging this volume.
Author : Günter Wagner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:72378433
Author : Everett Ferguson
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 988 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2009-03-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780802827487
A comprehensive survey of the doctrine and practice of baptism in the first five centuries of Christian history, arranged geographically within chronological periods.
Author : Günter Wagner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1191232884
Author : Stephen Richard Turley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567663870
Turley begins by surveying the history of the interface between ritual studies and Pauline scholarship, identifying the scholarly gaps in both method and conclusions and a ritual theory adequate to address such gaps. The focus of the work is then on the two rituals that identified the Pauline communities: ritual washings and ritual meals. Turley explores Galatians and 1 Corinthians, two letters that present the richest spread of evidence pertinent to ritual theory. By exploring Paul's reference to ritual washings and meals with a heuristic use of ritual theory, Turley concludes that rituals in early Christianity were inherently revelatory, in that they revealed the dawning of the messianic age through the bodies of the ritual participants. This bodily revelation established both a distinctly Christian ethic and a distinctly Christian social space by which such an ethical identity might be identified and sustained.
Author : Everett Ferguson
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0802822215
New to this expanded & updated edition are revisions of Ferguson's original material, updated bibliographies, & a fresh dicussion of first century social life, the Dead Sea Scrolls & much else.
Author : Joel McDurmon
Publisher : American Vision
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Apologetics
ISBN : 9780915815616
Author : David E. Aune
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2006-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780801028403
Provides a contemporary reassessment of the Pauline doctrine of justification from both Protestant and Catholic perspectives.
Author : Linda L. Belleville,B. J. Oropeza
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781978704695
This book examines 1 Corinthians in relation to how Paul interpreted and applied the Jewish Scriptures and other texts, including those from the Pentateuch, Psalms, and Prophets.
Author : Sorin Sabou
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781597527668
'Between Horror and Hope' is a study of Paul's metaphorical language of death in Romans 6:1-11. The scholarly debate focuses on two main issues; the origin of the 'commentatio mortis' tradition and its development. Dr. Sabou argues that the origin of this terminology is original to Paul; that it was the apostle's own insight into the meaning of Christ's death (a death to sin) and his understanding of the identity of Christ in his death (as the anointed davidic king) which guided him to create this metaphor of dying to sin as a way of describing the relationship of the believer with sin. On the development of this language of death, the author argues that this language conveys two aspects -- horror and hope. The first is discussed in the context of crucifixion in which Paul explains the believer's death to sin by presenting Christ's death as the death of the anointed davidic king who won the victory over sin and death by rising from the dead. Paul affirms that believers are coalesced with what was proclaimed about Christ's death and resurrection, thereby allowing him to assert that the releasing of the body from the power of sin is a result of crucifixion. This crucifixion is the condemnation inflicted on our past lives in the age inaugurated by Adam's sin and this is such a horrible event that believers have to stay away from sin since sin leads to such punishment. In contrast, hope is presented in the context of burial. The believers' burial with Christ points to the fact that they are part of Christ's family and this is accomplished by the overwhelming action of God by which he pushes us toward the event of Christ's death, an act pictured in baptism. It is this burial with Christ that allows believers to share with Christ in newness of life
Author : James R. Harrison,L. L. Welborn
Publisher : SBL Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780884142355
Investigate the challenges, threats, and opportunities experienced by the early church in Ephesus The third installment of The First Urban Churches focuses on the urban context of Christian churches in first-century Ephesus. As with previous volumes, contributors illustrate how an investigation of the material evidence will help readers understand properly the challenges, threats, and opportunities that the early Ephesian believers faced in that city. Brad Bitner, James R. Harrison, Michael Haxby, Fredrick J. Long, Guy M. Rogers, Michael Theophilos, Paul Trebilco, and Stephan Witetschek demonstrate decisively the difference that such an approach makes in grappling with the meaning and context of the New Testament writings, particularly Ephesians, Acts, and Revelation. Features Analysis of urban evidence of the inscriptions, papyri, archaeological remains, coins, and iconography Proposed reconstructions of the past and its social, religious and political significance A nuanced, informed portrait of ancient urban life in Ephesus
Author : Albert Bell
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1998-09-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781418587062
The timeless message of the New Testament applies to people of every culture and generation. Yet there is great value in understanding the world in which that message was first revealed - its social manners, politics, religious customs, and culture. Exploring the New Testament World, written by classics and Bible scholar Dr. Albert A. Bell, Jr., illuminates the living context of the New Testament, immersing its readers in the intriguing world of Jesus and the early church. An authority on ancient Greek and Roman language, culture, and history, Dr. Bell writes in a readable style that is accessible and enjoyable to any reader - an uncommon accomplishment among New Testament scholars today. Surveying Jewish factions of the era, the social and political structure of the Roman Empire, and the philosophies and religions that surrounded the early church, Dr. Bell helps his readers learn to think like first-century Jews, Greeks, and Romans, illuminating puzzling New Testament passages for clear understanding. Comprehensive Scripture and Subject Indexes make this volume even more useful as a "manners and customs" Bible companion. This authoritative guide receives high praise from college professors and Sunday school teachers alike, proving its appeal to both popular and academic audiences. A "must-have" reference for every pastor and an indispensable resource to any Bible reader.
Author : Alexander J. M. Wedderburn
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781610970877
The assumption that Romans 6 and 1 Corinthians 15 reflects a borrowing of ideas from Graeco-Roman mystery initiations is not the likeliest explanation of these texts nor does justice either to recent studies of the mysteries nor to the difficulty in reinterpreting resurrection to refer to a spiritual state which the baptized enjoyed in the present. Spiritual phenomena may have shown early Christians in the Graeco-Roman world that they had life, but not resurrection. Dying with Christ has other roots than the mysteries and the latter should not be interpreted in the light of Paul, but dying and coming to life again is a theme common to a great many rites of passage.