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Author | : James Buchanan Wallace |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 409 |
Release | : 2011-01-27 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 3110247852 |
Download Snatched into Paradise (2 Cor 12:1-10) Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Recent scholars have tended to interpret 2 Corinthians 12:1–10 as an attempt to belittle ecstatic experiences, such as Paul’s ascent to paradise, in favor of suffering in the service of the gospel. This study offers an alternative. An analysis of ascent traditions in the Greco-Roman and Jewish worlds investigates ascent as both a literary motif and a religious practice. This analysis probes several issues relevant to 2 Cor 12:1–10, including dynamics of ascent and suffering. The study turns next to religious experiences Paul believes he and his communities have undergone. A pattern emerges in which extraordinary experiences provide the basis for suffering and service. Moreover, Paul expects his communities to have had experiences similar to, if less dramatic than, his ascent to heaven. The author argues that in its context in 2 Corinthians, Paul’s ascent should be understood as an encounter with Christ that transcends human language and endows Paul with divine power, which must be refined through suffering. With the help of four premodern interpreters, the study further explores the theological relevance of Paul’s ascent. For Paul, mystical encounter with Christ forms the precondition for suffering and service because it enables self-transcending love for God and neighbors.
Author | : James Buchanan Wallace |
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Download Snatched Into Paradise (2 Corinthians 12:1-10) Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : James Buchanan Wallace |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 391 |
Release | : 2011-01-27 |
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ISBN | : 9783112188859 |
Download Snatched Into Paradise (2 Cor 12:1-10) Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In 2 Corinthians 12:1 10, Paul claims to have been snatched into paradise but then tells how he received a thorn in the flesh . Many recent scholars contend that Paul belittles ecstatic experiences such as the ascent to paradise. This monograph places 2 Corinthians 12:1 10 in the contexts of ancient ascent traditions as well as other accounts of extraordinary religious experience in Paul s letters, and it engages premodern interpretation of the ascent. This study argues that for Paul, extraordinary experiences such as the ascent enable self-transcending love for God and neighbors."
Author | : Stefan Alkier |
Publisher | : Fortress Press |
Total Pages | : 315 |
Release | : 2024-08-20 |
Genre | : Religion |
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Download The Promise of Ecumenical Interpretation Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Promise of Ecumenical Interpretation pursues its ecumenical goals by allowing the Bible itself to serve as the point of commonality. The volume retains the Bible's centrality as a guideline for individual faith and for the institutional design of churches in the context of contemporary social conflicts. The authors--one Protestant, one Catholic, one Orthodox--present ten unifying theses on the understanding and function of a conception of Scripture under the sign of Sola Scriptura. They agree that only Scripture, when correctly understood, bears witness to good news for everyone, and that only a shared, expectant, and critical turn to Scripture makes sustainable ecumenism possible. This is the basis for bringing biblical insights to the conditions that make community life possible amid the global and local, ecclesiastical and social conflicts of the present.
Author | : Hans Boersma |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 303 |
Release | : 2013-03-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 019165132X |
Download Embodiment and Virtue in Gregory of Nyssa Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Embodiment in the theology of Gregory of Nyssa is a much-debated topic. Hans Boersma argues that this-worldly realities of time and space, which include embodiment, are not the focus of Gregory's theology. Instead, embodiment plays a distinctly subordinate role. The key to his theology, Boersma suggests, is anagogy, going upward in order to participate in the life of God. This book looks at a variety of topics connected to embodiment in Gregory's thought: time and space; allegory; gender, sexuality, and virginity; death and mourning; slavery, homelessness, and poverty; and the church as the body of Christ. In each instance, Boersma maintains, Gregory values embodiment only inasmuch as it enables us to go upward in the intellectual realm of the heavenly future. Boersma suggests that for Gregory embodiment and virtue serve the anagogical pursuit of otherworldly realities. Countering recent trends in scholarship that highlight Gregory's appreciation of the goodness of creation, this book argues that Gregory looks at embodiment as a means for human beings to grow in virtue and so to participate in the divine life. It is true that, as a Christian thinker, Gregory regards the creator-creature distinction as basic. But he also works with the distinction between spirit and matter. And Nyssen is convinced that in the hereafter the categories of time and space will disappear-while the human body will undergo an inconceivable transformation. This book, then, serves as a reminder of the profoundly otherworldly cast of Gregory's theology.
Author | : Saint John Chrysostom |
Publisher | : CUA Press |
Total Pages | : 373 |
Release | : 2010-04 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0813211727 |
Download On the Incomprehensible Nature of God (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 72) Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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Author | : John Piper |
Publisher | : Crossway |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2005-09-08 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1433518414 |
Download God Is the Gospel Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
God, who said, "Let light shine out of darkness," has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. 2 Corinthians 4:6 This book is a cry from the heart of John Piper. He is pleading that God himself, as revealed in Christ's death and resurrection, is the ultimate and greatest gift of the gospel. None of Christ's gospel deeds and none of our gospel blessings are good news except as means of seeing and savoring the glory of Christ. Forgiveness is good news because it opens the way to the enjoyment of God himself. Justification is good news because it wins access to the presence and pleasures of God himself. Eternal life is good news because it becomes the everlasting enjoyment of Christ. All God's gifts are loving only to the degree that they lead us to God himself. That is what God's love is: his commitment to do everything necessary (most painfully the death of his only Son) to enthrall us with what is most deeply and durably satisfying-namely, himself. Saturated with Scripture, centered on the cross, and seriously joyful, this book leads us to satisfaction for the deep hungers of the soul. It touches us at the root of life where practical transformation gets its daily power. It awakens our longing for Christ and opens our eyes to his beauty. Piper writes for the soul-thirsty who have turned away empty and in desperation from the mirage of methodology. He invites us to slow down and drink from a deeper spring. "This is eternal life," Jesus said, "that they know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent." This is what makes the gospel-and this book-good news.
Author | : Gallery of Modern Art Including the Huntington Hartford Collection |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 60 |
Release | : 1964 |
Genre | : Painting, German |
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Author | : George Gordon Byron Baron Byron |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1008 |
Release | : 1835 |
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Download The Complete Works of Lord Byron Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 982 |
Release | : 1837 |
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Download The complete works of lord Byron, repr. from the last London ed., containing considerable additions; to which is prefixed a life, by H. L. Bulwer Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle