Fair Play: Diversity and Conflicts in Early Christianity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fair Play: Diversity and Conflicts in Early Christianity write by Ismo Dunderberg. This book was released on 2014-04-09. Fair Play: Diversity and Conflicts in Early Christianity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This collection of essays in honour of Heikki Räisänen, New Testament professor at the University of Helsinki, consists of 22 essays written by his colleagues and students on Jesus, the gospels, Paul, early Christianity, and biblical interpretation. Räisänen's own research has been characterized by methodological awareness combined with a keen interest in ethical issues. Both these aspects come to expression in his insistence on "fair play" as a correct scholarly attitude involving an honest dialogue, a real encounter, and a recognition of diverging opinions. In this spirit, most of the essays in this book lay emphasis on issues related to early Christian diversity and conflicts, and to their challenge in modern society. The book is useful for scholars, academic teachers and students interested in various aspects of the New Testament, early Christianity, and hermeneutics.
The Doubt of the Apostles and the Resurrection Faith of the Early Church
The Doubt of the Apostles and the Resurrection Faith of the Early Church - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Doubt of the Apostles and the Resurrection Faith of the Early Church write by J. D. Atkins. This book was released on 2019-08-02. The Doubt of the Apostles and the Resurrection Faith of the Early Church available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Why do the Gospels depict the risen Jesus as touchable and able to eat? J. D. Atkins challenges the common view that Luke 24 and John 20 are apologetic responses to docetism by re-examining the redaction of the appearance stories in light of their reception among early docetists and church fathers."--Page 4 of cover.
The Sheep of the Fold
The Sheep of the Fold - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Sheep of the Fold write by Edward W. Klink III. This book was released on 2007-08-02. The Sheep of the Fold available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The last generation of gospel scholarship has considered the reconstruction and analysis of the audience behind the gospels as paradigmatic. The key hermeneutical template for reading the gospels has been the quest for the community that each gospel represents. This scholarly consensus regarding the audience of the gospels has been reconsidered. Using as a test case one of the most entrenched gospels, Edward Klink explores the evidence for the audience behind the Gospel of John. This study challenges the prevailing gospel paradigm by examining the community construct and its functional potential in early Christianity, the appropriation of a gospel text and J. L. Martyn's two-level reading of John, and the implied reader located within the narrative. The study concludes by proposing a more appropriate audience model for reading John, as well as some implications for the function of the gospel in early Christianity.
Sectarianism in Early Judaism
Sectarianism in Early Judaism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sectarianism in Early Judaism write by David J. Chalcraft. This book was released on 2014-12-05. Sectarianism in Early Judaism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 'Sectarianism in Early Judaism' applies recent developments in sociological analysis to sect formation and development in early Judaism. The essays examine sectarianism in a wide range of different forms: the many layers of redaction in religious texts; the development arcs of sectarian groups; the role of sectarianism across Jewish history as well as in the time of the Second Temple; and the relations within and between sects and between sects and wider society. The book aims to establish a conceptual framework for the analysis of sects and, in doing so, makes particular use of the work of Max Weber and Bryan Wilson, exploring the limits of their typologies and sociological theories.
Introduction to Christian Ethics
Introduction to Christian Ethics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Introduction to Christian Ethics write by Ellen Ott Marshall. This book was released on 2018-10-30. Introduction to Christian Ethics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. All Christians read the Bible differently, pray differently, value their traditions differently, and give different weight to individual and corporate judgment. These differences are the basis of conflict. The question Christian ethics must answer, then, is, "What does the good life look like in the context of conflict?" In this new introductory text, Ellen Ott Marshall uses the inevitable reality of difference to center and organize her exploration of the system of Christian morality. What can we learn from Jesus' creative use of conflict in situations that were especially attuned to questions of power? What does the image of God look like when we are trying to recognize the divine image within those with whom we are in conflict? How can we better explore and understand the complicated work of reconciliation and justice? This innovative approach to Christian ethics will benefit a new generation of students who wish to engage the perennial questions of what constitutes a faithful Christian life and a just society.
