Order and (Dis)order in the First Christian Century : A General Survey of Attitudes.
Title:
Order and (Dis)order in the First Christian Century : A General Survey of Attitudes.
Author:
Downing, F. Gerald.
ISBN:
9789004255814
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (409 pages)
Series:
Novum Testamentum, Supplements ; v.151
Novum Testamentum, Supplements
Contents:
Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- PART ONE. ORDER -- Chapter One. "Let everything be done decently and in order ("euschemonos kai kata taxin")" (1Cor 14.40). Unity, Order and Problems of Diversity. -- Chapter Two. "Let everything be done decently and in order ("euschemonos kai kata taxin")" (1Cor 14.40). Unity, Order and Problems of Diversity. -- Chapter Three. Order within: Passions, Divine and Human -- Chapter Four. Order within: Passions, Divine and Human -- Chapter Five. Order in Composition: âœkathexes soi grapfaiâš (Luke 1.3) -- Chapter Six. Order in Thought: Ambiguity, Ancient Semantics, and Faith -- Chapter Seven. "All things to All People", "tois pasin panta" (1 Cor 9.22). (Dis)order in Thought: Free-range Reflections to engage Dio of Prusa's and Paul's Implied Audiences -- PART TWO. LAW -- Chapter Eight. Legislation as Social Engineering in the New Testament World -- Chapter Nine. "What, then, of the Law?", "TI OUN O NOMOS -- " Gal 3.19. Appraisals of Law in Paul and other New Testament Writers, and in the wider Graeco-Roman World -- Chapter Ten. Justification as Acquittal? A Critical Examination of Judicial Parlance in Paul's World -- Chapter Eleven. Disorderly Court Procedure: Pliny's Prosecutions of Christians -- PART THREE. DISRUPTIVE RE-ORDERING -- Chapter Twelve. The Baptist's New Order -- Chapter Thirteen. Dissident Jesus -- Chapter Fourteen. Disorderly Paul -- Bibliography -- Index of Modern Authors -- Index of Ancient Sources -- Index of Topics.
Abstract:
Law and order found widespread support in the world of the first Christians - and, perhaps surprisingly, also trenchant critiques. Justice was not by any means always seen to be done. Acceptance and dissent appear from Jesus and Paul, onwards.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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