Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Chapter Introduction / Leif E. Vaage
  • chapter PartOne
  • chapter 1 Asceticism and the Gospel of Matthew / Anthony J. Saldarini
  • chapter 2 Asceticism and Mark's Gospel / Mary Ann Tolbert
  • chapter 3 Askesis and the Early Jesus Tradition / Stephen J. Patterson
  • chapter 4 Beloved Physician of the Soul? Luke as Advocate for Ascetic Practice / Susan R. Garrett
  • chapter 5 "Full of Spirit and Wisdom": Luke's Portrait of Stephen (Acts 6:1-8:1a) as a Man of Self-Mastery / Abraham Smith
  • chapter 6 Children of the Resurrection: Perspectives on Angelic Asceticism in Luke-Acts / Turid Karlsen Seim
  • chapter 7 Asceticism and the Gospel of John / David Rensberger
  • chapter 8 Making Sense of Difference: Asceticism, Gospel Literature, and the Jesus Tradition / John S. Kloppenborg
  • chapter PartTwo
  • chapter 9 God's Will at Thessalonica and Greco-Roman Asceticism / Ronald F. Hock
  • chapter 10 Disciplines of Difference: Asceticism and History in Paul / Elizabeth A. Castelli
  • chapter 11 Paul the Prisoner: Political Asceticism in the Letter to the Philippians / Robin Scroggs
  • chapter 12 The Letter to Philemon and Asceticism / Robin Scroggs
  • chapter 13 Competing Ascetic Subjectivities in the Letter to the Galatians / Richard Valantasis
  • chapter 14 Asceticism among the "Weak" and "Strong" in Romans 14-15 / Neil Elliott
  • chapter PartThree
  • chapter 2 Thessalonians and the Discipline of Work / Jennifer Wright Knust
  • chapter Citizens of Heaven and Earth: Asceticism and Social Integration in Colossians and Ephesians / Margaret Y. MacDonald
  • chapter Askesis and Resistance in the Pastoral Letters / Gail Corrington Streete
  • chapter Where is "This World" Headed? Irony, World Renunciation, and the Pauline Corpus / Will Love
  • chapter PartFour
  • chapter The Virtue of Suffering, the Necessity of Discipline, and the Pursuit of Perfection in Hebrews / Pamela Eisenbaum
  • chapter An Asceticism of Resistance in James / Alicia Batten
  • chapter Asceticism or Household Morality? 1 and 2 Peter and Jude / L. Wm. Countryman
  • chapter Asceticism in the Johannine Letters? / L. Wm. Countryman
  • chapter The Ascetic Way: Reflections on Peace, Justice, and Vengeance in the Apocalype of John / William Klassen
  • chapter Imperial Asceticism: Discipline of Domination / Alison Keith
  • chapter Epilogue The New Testament in Asceticism / Leif E. Vaage.