| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 369 pages) |
| Contents |
1. A Cynic preparation for Paul's Gospel for Jew and Greek, slave and free, male and female -- 2. Scholarly perceptions of Cynics, and of Cynics and early Christians; and our sources -- 3. Why then the law? -- 4. Already the sceptre and the kingdom -- 5. Troubles invited, troubles withstood -- 6. Paul the teacher and pastor -- 7. One God, one Lord -- 8. Paul, an "anomalous" Jew -- 9. Stoic and Epicurean strands -- 10. Paul and other early Christians and their traditions of Jesus; and Jesus -- 11. Conclusions |
| Summary |
F. Gerald Downing explores the teachings of Paul, arguing that the development of Paul's preaching and of the Pauline Church owed a great deal to the views of the vagabond Cynic philosophers, critics of the gods and of the ethos of civic society. F. Gerald Downing examines the New Testament writings of Paul, explaining how he would have been seen, heard, perceived and understood by his culturally and ethnically diverse converts and disciples. He engages in a lucid Pauline commentary and offers some startling and ground-breaking views of Paul and his Word. Cynics, Paul and the Pauline |
| Analysis |
Teologi Teologi |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-337) and indexes |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
Bible. Epistles of Paul -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
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Bible. Epistles of Paul fast |
| Subject |
Cynics (Greek philosophy)
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Pauline churches.
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RELIGION -- Biblical Biography -- New Testament.
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Cynics (Greek philosophy)
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Pauline churches
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Downing, F. Gerald, 1935-
Cynics and Christian origins
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| ISBN |
020320347X |
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9780203203477 |
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9780415171595 |
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0415171598 |
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1280336226 |
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9781280336225 |
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9786610336227 |
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6610336229 |
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