Paul and Philodemus : adaptability in Epicurean and early Christian psychagogy /

Paul and Philodemus : adaptability in Epicurean and early Christian psychagogy /

As Paul guides and educates his converts he functions as a psychagogue ("leader of souls"), adapting his leadership style as required in each individual case. Pauline psychagogy resembles Epicurean psychagogy in the way persons enjoying a superior moral status and spiritual aptitude help t...

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Main Author: Glad, Clarence E.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; New York : E.J. Brill, 1995.

Series: Novum Testamentum, Supplements 81.
Novum Testamentum Supplements Online, ISBN: 9789004264557.

Subjects:

Philodemus, > approximately 110-approximately 40 B. C. > De libertate dicendi.
Epicurus > Influence.
Bible. > Corinthians, 1st, IX, 19-23 > Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Spiritual formation > Biblical teaching.
Adaptability (Psychology) > Biblical teaching.

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Call Number: BS2675.6.S65 G57 1995

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction
  • Adaptability, Versatility, and Psychagogy
  • Psychagogy and the Mixed Method of Moral Exhortation
  • Epicurean Communal Psychagogy
  • Psychagogy and Friendship
  • Pauline Psychagogy
  • Paul's Psychagogic Adaptability and the Weak and Recalcitrant Members of the Corinthian Community
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index of Authors
  • Index of Passages
  • Index of Subjects.