Order and (dis)order in the first Christian century : a general survey of attitudes /

Order and (dis)order in the first Christian century : a general survey of attitudes /

Articulate first century Mediterranean society, Jewish and Christian included, expressly favoured harmonious order in society, in individuals, in communication, and in thought. Its common basis was the patriarchal family, the rule of law, rational self-control, and rational thought. Yet there was al...

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Main Author: Downing, F. Gerald, 1935-

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.

Series: Novum Testamentum, Supplements 151.
Novum Testamentum Supplements Online, ISBN: 9789004264557.

Subjects:

Bible. > Epistles of Paul > Theology.
Church history > Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
Church polity > History > Early church, ca. 30-600.
Christianity and culture > History > Early church, ca. 30-600.
Law (Theology) > Biblical teaching.

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Call Number: BR166 .D69 2013

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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Introduction
  • "Let everything be done decently and in order (εὐσχημόνως καὶ κατὰ τάξιν)" (1Cor 14.40). Unity, Order and Problems of Diversity
  • "Let everything be done decently and in order (εὐσχημόνως καὶ κατὰ τάξιν)" (1Cor 14.40). Unity, Order and Problems of Diversity
  • Order within: Passions, Divine and Human
  • Order within: Passions, Divine and Human
  • Order in Composition: "καθεξῆς σοι γράψαι" (Luke 1.3)
  • Order in Thought: Ambiguity, Ancient Semantics, and Faith
  • "All things to All People", τοῖς πᾶσιν πάντα (1Cor 9.22). (Dis)order in Thought: Free-range Reflections to Engage Dio of Prusa's and Paul's Implied Audiences
  • Legislation as Social Engineering in the New Testament World
  • "What, then, of the Law?", "ΤΙ ΟΥΝ Ο ΝΟΜΟΣ;" Gal 3.19. Appraisals of Law in Paul and Other New Testament Writers, and in the Wider Graeco-Roman World
  • Justification as Acquittal? A Critical Examination of Judicial Parlance in Paul's World
  • Disorderly Court Procedure: Pliny's Prosecutions of Christians
  • The Baptist's New Order
  • Dissident Jesus
  • Disorderly Paul
  • Bibliography
  • Indexes.