Purity and worldview in the Epistle of James /
Arguing against restricting the meaning of purity language to the individual moral sphere (as many commentaries do), the central argument of Purity and Worldview in the Epistle of James is that purity language both articulates and constructs the worldview in James's epistle. Lockett offers a ta...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
London ; New York :
T & T Clark,
©2008.
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Colección: | Library of New Testament studies ;
366. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | Arguing against restricting the meaning of purity language to the individual moral sphere (as many commentaries do), the central argument of Purity and Worldview in the Epistle of James is that purity language both articulates and constructs the worldview in James's epistle. Lockett offers a taxonomy of purity language, applied as a heuristic guide to understand the function of purity and pollution in the epistle. Through this analysis the study concludes that James is not calling for sectarian separation, but rather demonstrates a degree of cultural accommodation while calling forth specific. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 221 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-208) and indexes. |
ISBN: | 9780567114747 0567114740 1283192594 9781283192590 |