Called into the mission of God : a missional reading of Paul's Thessalonian correspondence /

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Roji George argues that Paul's primary interest was neither doctrinal teaching nor the articulation of an anti-imperial discourse. Instead, he contends that amidst the many problems that faced the Thessalonian community--eschatological fears, ethical difficulties, and persecution from outside g...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: George, Roji T. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : Fortress Press, [2020]
Temas:
Bible. > Thessalonians > Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bible. > Thessalonians.
Missions > Biblical teaching.
Missions > Enseignement biblique.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Reading a Text Missionally
  • 1.1. Important terms and definitions
  • 1.2. A definition of missional hermeneutic
  • 1.3. Why missional hermeneutic in biblical studies?
  • 1.4. Competing or complementary trends in missional reading
  • 1.5. Missional hermeneutic: A reader-oriented interpretive strategy?
  • 1.6. Reading the Thessalonian correspondence missionally
  • Locating Thessalonians in its Missional Context
  • 2.1. The city of Thessalonica: Social, cultural, religious, and political context
  • 2.2. Authenticity and date of Paul's Thessalonian correspondence
  • 2.3. The question of sequence and occasion of 1 and 2 Thessalonians
  • 2.4. The purpose of 1 and 2 Thessalonians
  • 2.5. Paul's Thessalonian community and the Christians in a pluralistic and hostile context in India
  • Eschatology: A Framework for Missional Theology
  • 3.1. The centrality of eschatology for Paul's missional theology in Thessalonian correspondence
  • 3.2. The language of eschatology
  • 3.3. Eschatology, Paul's mission, and the Thessalonians
  • God and His Community in Thessalonica
  • 4.1. God in 1 and 2 Thessalonians
  • 4.2. God and the missional community in Thessalonica
  • 4.3. The church as a risk-taking missional community
  • 4.4. Church in India: A missional call
  • The Gospel and Missional Pneumatology
  • 5.1. The gospel in Thessalonica
  • 5.2. Missional pneumatology
  • 5.3. The creative word, the Spirit, and the Charismata for the life and mission of the church today
  • Imitation: A Pauline Strategy of Discipleship
  • 6.1. Interrelationship between imitation and discipleship
  • 6.2. Discipling through imitation in 1 and 2 Thessalonians
  • 6.3. Missional ethics
  • 6.4. Cultural ambiguity, strategic identity, and discipleship "in Christ"
  • 6.5. Imitation for discipleship and Christian witness in India
  • Conclusion.

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