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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 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Differing salvations, differing ethics
- Part I. The salvation of Jews and Gentiles: higher and lower levels of salvation in the letters of the apostle Paul and John of Patmos's Revelation. John's heavenly city: the book of Revelation and Jewish narratives of salvation
- Paul's olive tree: saving Gentiles as Gentiles and Jews as Jews in Christ
- Part II. Saints and sinners in early Christianity: ethical differences as salvific hierarchies in the Shepherd of Hermas and the Apocryphon of John. In heaven as it is on earth: ethical and salvific differences in the Shepherd of Hermas and the Apocryphon of John
- Diagnosing sin and saving sinners: early Christian ethical and soteriological problem-solving
- Part III. The threefold division of humanity: identity, soteriology, and moral responsibility in the Excerpts of Theodotus, the Tripartite tractate, and Heracleon's Commentary on John. Mapping the heavens: the missionizing ethics and soteriology of Valentinians
- The threefold division and exegesis: ethics in Heracleon's commentary on John
- Conclusion: moral imagination and ancient Christianity.