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Cynics, Paul, and the Pauline churches : Cynics and Christian origins II /

F. Gerald Downing explores the teachings of Paul, arguing that the development of Paul's preaching and of the Pauline Church owed a great deal to the views of the vagabond Cynic philosophers, critics of the gods and of the ethos of civic society. F. Gerald Downing examines the New Testament wri...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Downing, F. Gerald, 1935-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Routledge, 1998.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. A Cynic preparation for Paul's Gospel for Jew and Greek, slave and free, male and female
  • 2. Scholarly perceptions of Cynics, and of Cynics and early Christians; and our sources
  • 3. Why then the law?
  • 4. Already the sceptre and the kingdom
  • 5. Troubles invited, troubles withstood
  • 6. Paul the teacher and pastor
  • 7. One God, one Lord
  • 8. Paul, an "anomalous" Jew
  • 9. Stoic and Epicurean strands
  • 10. Paul and other early Christians and their traditions of Jesus; and Jesus
  • 11. Conclusions.