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Heavenly stories : tiered salvation in the New Testament and ancient Christianity /
"This book examines a series of ancient Jewish and Christian authors who wrote teleological stories, or stories with fixed endings, to encourage their readers toward specific ethical conduct. For each of the case studies examined in this book, the fixed end point of their narratives is a divide...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2021]
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| Edición: | [1st edition]. |
| Colección: | Divinations.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "This book examines a series of ancient Jewish and Christian authors who wrote teleological stories, or stories with fixed endings, to encourage their readers toward specific ethical conduct. For each of the case studies examined in this book, the fixed end point of their narratives is a divided heaven or multiple heavens, where the saved enjoy greater or lesser rewards. Furthermore, just as there was more than one heaven or salvific reward, there were multiple types of ethical conduct, tailored to whether you were a Jew or a gentile, a saint or a sinner, a spiritual (pneumatic) or merely soulish (psychic) person. A saint will enjoy a higher level of salvation because she behaved differently than a repentant sinner. Saints will remain saints, and sinners will remain sinners, and each class will enjoy a different level of salvation"-- |
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| Notas: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (vi, 263 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-252) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780812299748 0812299744 |