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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450397203321

Titolo

Asceticism and the New Testament / / edited by Leif E. Vaage, Vincent L. Wimbush

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 1999

ISBN

1-135-96223-5

1-135-96224-3

0-203-90430-3

1-280-40734-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 444 pages)

Altri autori (Persone)

VaageLeif E

WimbushVincent L

Disciplina

248.4/7/09015

Soggetti

Asceticism - History - Early church, ca. 30-600

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Contributors; Introduction; Asceticism and the Gospel of Matthew; Asceticism and Mark's Gospel; Askesis and the Early Jesus Tradition; Beloved Physician of the Soul? Luke as Advocate for Ascetic Practice; ~Full of Spirit and Wisdom~: Luke's Portrait of Stephen (Acts 6:1  8:1a) as a Man of Self-Mastery; Children of the Resurrection: Perspectives on Angelic Asceticism in Luke-Acts; Asceticism and the Gospel of John; Making Sense of Difference: Asceticism, Gospel Literature, and the Jesus Tradition

God's Will at Thessalonica and Greco-Roman AsceticismDisciplines of Difference: Asceticism and History in Paul; Paul the Prisoner: Political Asceticism in the Letter to the Philippians; The Letter to Philemon and Asceticism; Competing Ascetic Subjectivities in the Letter to the Galatians; Asceticism among the ~Weak~ and ~Strong~ in Romans 14  15; 2 Thessalonians and the Discipline of Work; Citizens of Heaven and Earth: Asceticism and Social Integration in Colossians and Ephesians; Askesis and Resistance in the Pastoral Letters

Where Is ~This World~ Headed? Irony, World Renunciation, and the



Pauline CorpusThe Virtue of Suffering, the Necessity of Discipline, and the Pursuit of Perfection in Hebrews; An Asceticism of Resistance in James; Asceticism or Household Morality? 1 and 2 Peter and Jude; Asceticism in the Johannine Letters?; The Ascetic Way: Reflections on Peace, Justice, and Vengeance in the Apocalypse of John; Imperial Asceticism: Discipline of Domination; Epilogue: The New Testament and Asceticism; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book is both comprehensive and comparative in its representation of how the question of asceticism might reorder the way in which we interpret the New Testament.