Prophecy And Hermeneutic In Early Christianity

Author : E. Earle Ellis
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 308 pages
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Release : 2003-06-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725200265

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Prophecy and Hermeneutic in Early Christianity by E. Earle Ellis Pdf

'Prophecy and Hermeneutic in Early Christianity' was written with the conviction that the New Testament presents to its readers not merely the opinions of Christian writers, but also the message of God mediated through faithful prophets. These prophets initiated and interpreted the first proclamation of the Christian faith - a proclamation that continues to enlighten and to guide the church, for it provides a key to the church's history and theology. The prophets in this study are the pneumatics, those early Christians who are characterized by spiritual gifts of inspired speech and discernment, who are coworkers of Paul engaged in preaching and teaching. While some were perverting their gifts and thereby causing strife in the church, Paul's companions had an active role in its missionary enterprise. Dr. Ellis examines the dispute between the two parties which threatened to destroy the unity and faith of the church. The pneumatics were involved in the formulation of a Christian theology of the Old Testament through their exposition and application of Scripture. Dr. Ellis describes and elaborates upon the interpretative principles which they used. He concludes with a critique of the older form criticism of the gospels and suggests some new directions for understanding the history of the transmission of the teaching of Jesus.

Author : Jeon Ahn Yongnan
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 45,5 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 : E. Earle Ellis
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2003-06-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725200258

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The Old Testament in Early Christianity by E. Earle Ellis Pdf

In this paperback edition of an important historical study, E. Earle Ellis examines the Old Testament canon in the early church and biblical interpretation in the New Testament. He writes from the conviction that the use of the Old Testament by the New Testament writers is the primary key to their theology and, thus, to the message of God that they taught the early church and that they continue to teach the church today.

Author : Stanley E. Porter
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2006-08-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780802828460

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Hearing the Old Testament in the New Testament by Stanley E. Porter Pdf

How does the New Testament echo the Old? Which versions of the Hebrew Scriptures were authoritative for New Testament writers? The appearance of concepts, images, and passages from the Old Testament in the books of the New raises important questions about textual versions, allusions, and the differences between ancient and modern meaning. Written by ten distinguished scholars, Hearing the Old Testament in the New Testament first lays out significant foundational issues and then systematically investigates the use of the Old in the New Testament. In a culminating essay Andreas Kstenberger both questions and affirms the other contributors' findings. These essays together will reward a wide range of New Testament readers with a wealth of insights.

Author : Christopher R. Seitz
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2007-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780801032585

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Prophecy and Hermeneutics by Christopher R. Seitz Pdf

This original and fruitful approach to the study of the Prophets takes seriously the questions of both exegesis and hermeneutics.

Author : David E. Aune
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 535 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2003-08-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781592443024

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Prophecy in Early Christianity and the Ancient Mediterranean World by David E. Aune Pdf

Aune's comprehensive study of early Christian prophecy includes a review of its antecedents (Greco-Roman oracles, ancient Israelite prophecy, prophecy in early Judaism), a discussion of Jesus as prophet, and analyses of Christian prophetic speeches from Paul to the middle of the second century A.D. The most detailed study of early Christian prophecy written, Aune's book places the phenomenon of early Christian prophecy within the larger Greco-Roman world.

Author : Thomas W. Gillespie
Publisher : William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Prophecy
ISBN : UOM:39015033261838

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The First Theologians by Thomas W. Gillespie Pdf

What were the function and location of the prophets in early Christianity? What were the nature and authority of their prophesying? What were the forms and content of their prophecy? In this book, Princeton theologian Thomas Gillespie provides an important contribution to the scholarly investigation of the nature and function of early Christian prophecy.

Author : Christopher Forbes
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Religion
ISBN : 3161462238

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Prophecy and Inspired Speech in Early Christianity and Its Hellenistic Environment by Christopher Forbes Pdf

Author : David Edward Aune
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Prophecy
ISBN : OCLC:62155374

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Prophecy in Early Christianity and the Ancient Mediterranean World by David Edward Aune Pdf

Author : A. Stewart-Sykes
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004313330

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From Prophecy to Preaching by A. Stewart-Sykes Pdf

This book seeks to determine the origins of preaching in Christianity, and to trace its history before Origen. On the basis of a examination of the external evidence for Christian preaching before Origen and of cognate activities in the ancient world which might have influenced Christian practice, and on the basis of a narrative hypothesis on the nature of the development of Christianity, a history is traced by which prophecy gives way to Scripture as the primitive Christian oikos becomes the oikos theou. The homily is seen to emerge from the practice of submitting prophecy to judgement and application, which comes to employ Scripture and in time is employed on Scripture itself. This is the first attempt to answer the questions of how, when and why preaching entered Christian worship.

Author : William L. Schutter
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Religion
ISBN : 316145118X

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Hermeneutic and Composition in I Peter by William L. Schutter Pdf

Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Cambridge, 1985.

Author : Carroll D. Osburn
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2007-07-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781556355417

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Essays on Women in Earliest Christianity, Volume 2 by Carroll D. Osburn Pdf

Contributors Fred A. Bailey Robert F. Hull, Jr. David B. Jackson Earl Lavender Jack P. Lewis Bill Love Rick Marrs Allan McNicol John McRay Michael S. Moore Frederick W. Norris Tom Olbright Carroll D. Osburn Dale Pauls Kathy J. Pulley Charme E. Robarts Gary Selby James Thompson Gerald C. Tiffin Jack W. Vancil James Walters Frank Wheeler John T. Willis Timothy M. Willis Wendell Willis

Author : Seth B. Tarrer
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781575066905

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Reading with the Faithful by Seth B. Tarrer Pdf

If, therefore, someone is a prophet, he no doubt prophesies, but if someone prophesies he is not necessarily a prophet.—Origen Origen, writing sometime in the mid-third century on the Gospel of John, has charted a course for the subsequent history of interpretation of true and false prophecy. Although Tarrer’s study is concerned primarily with various readings of Jeremiah’s construal of the problem, the ambiguity inherent in Origen’s statement is glaring nonetheless. This monograph is a study of the history of interpretation. It therefore does not fit neatly into the category of Wirkungsgeschichte. Moving through successive periods of the Christian church’s history, Tarrer selects representative interpretations of Jeremiah and Ezekiel in later theological works dealing explicitly with the question of true and false prophecy in an effort to present a sampling of material from the span of the church’s existence. As evidenced by the list of “false prophets” uncovered at Qumran, along with the indelible interpretive debt owed by Christian interpreters such as Jerome and Calvin to Jewish exegetical methods, Jewish interpretation’s vast legacy quickly exceeds the scope of this project. From the sixteenth century onward, the focus on the Protestant church is, again, due to economy. In the end, Tarrer concludes that the early church and pre-modern tradition evidenced a recurring appeal to some form of association between Jeremiah 28 and the deuteronomic prophetic warnings in Deuteronomy 13 and 18.

Author : Therese Scarpelli Cory,Gregory T. Doolan
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780813237411

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Summa Metaphysicae Ad Mentem Sancti Thomae: Essays in Honor of John F. Wippel by Therese Scarpelli Cory,Gregory T. Doolan Pdf

The essays of Patristic Exegesis in Context examine the biblical exegesis of early Christians beyond the formal genre of biblical commentary. The past couple of decades have seen a broadening of perspective on the study of patristic exegesis; the phenomenon is increasingly situated within its various literary contexts and genres, and the definition of what counts as patristic exegesis is therefore widened. This volume thus situates itself within this emerging scholarly tradition, which aims not to give an account of exegetical strategies and methodologies as found primarily in exegetical commentaries and homilies, but to demonstrate the highly sophisticated nature of biblical exegesis in other genres, and the manifold uses to which this exegesis was put. Ancient Christian authors lived and breathed scripture; it served as their primary source of theological and liturgical vocabulary, their way of processing the world, their social ethic, and their mode of constructing self and communal identity. Scripture therefore permeates all ancient Christian literature, regardless of genre, and the various contexts in which interpretation of scripture took place resulted in a wide variety of uses of the church's authoritative texts. The essays in this volume demonstrate the interpretive skill, creativity, and sophistication of early Christian authors in a myriad of other early Christian genres, such as poetry, paraphrase, hymns, martyr accounts, homilies, prophetic vision accounts, monastic writings, argumentative treatises, encomia, apocalypses, and catenae. Accordingly, the volume aims to help the modern person, who is used to hearing the Bible explained in explicitly expository situations (for example, in academic commentaries or religious sermons) to become more habituated to ancient ways of interacting with and expounding the biblical text. These essays attempt to contextualize various types of patristic exegesis, in order for us to glimpse the complex and diverse uses of the Bible in this period.

Author : Ute E. Eisen
Publisher : Liturgical Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0814659500

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Women Officeholders in Early Christianity by Ute E. Eisen Pdf

Here Ute E. Eisen provides a scholarly investigation of the evidence that women held offices of authority in the first centuries of Christianity. Topics include apostles, prophets, theological teachers, presbyters, enrolled widows, deacons, bishops, and oikonomae. The book concludes with a chapter on "source-oriented perspectives for a history of Christian women in official positions."