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Bezig met laden... Paul on Marriage and Celibacy: The Hellenistic Background of 1 Corinthians 7 (editie 2004)door Will H. Deming (Auteur)
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. This is a stunning account of Paul's moral methodology in relation to vexed questions, particularly to do with sex. Will Deming, always scrupulously attentive to the original texts and contexts, makes a careful and thorough case that St Paul's approach to these kinds of controversies was generous, pragmatic, and adaptable, and implicitly allows us to think that if Paul were with us today he would be far from the misogynistic and homophobic bigot who is sometimes presented to us. ( ) geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Paul has long been regarded as an early champion of sexual asceticism, but little account has hitherto been taken of the Stoic and Cynic discourse on marriage which formed the context of his writings. This study overturns the traditional interpretation, first by a critique of established theories about the influence of Jewish spirituality, 'enthusiasm' and material dualism on Paul's theology, and then by a reconstruction, using the surviving philosophical 'fragments', of the course of Stoic and Cynic thinking on marriage from early Greek precursors to late Roman and patristic authors - information which is then applied to Paul in a close exegesis of the text. The result is an illuminating reassessment of both Paul's understanding of marriage and his place in the history of Christian asceticism, providing new information for discussions of Christian sexuality and feminist evaluations of the Bible. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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