03825nam 2200673Ia 450 991081091030332120200520144314.01-282-07333-897866120733353-11-173133-23-11-021214-510.1515/9783110212143(CKB)1000000000724274(EBL)429294(OCoLC)476275983(SSID)ssj0000116532(PQKBManifestationID)11128820(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000116532(PQKBWorkID)10036201(PQKB)11365397(MiAaPQ)EBC429294(DE-B1597)32700(OCoLC)979583999(DE-B1597)9783110212143(Au-PeEL)EBL429294(CaPaEBR)ebr10282621(CaONFJC)MIL207333(EXLCZ)99100000000072427420090522d2007 uy 0gerur|||||||||||txtccrBy the same word creation and salvation in Hellenistic Judaism and early Christianity /Ronald CoxBerlin W. de Gruyter20071 online resource (408 p.)Beihefte zur zeitschrift fnr die neutestamentliche wissenschaft und die kunde der ateren kirche ;145Description based upon print version of record.3-11-019342-6 Includes bibliographical references and index. Frontmatter -- Contents -- Chapter One. Introduction -- Chapter Two. Middle Platonic Intermediary Doctrine -- Chapter Three. Salvation as the Fulfillment of Creation: The Roles of the Divine Intermediary in Hellenistic Judaism -- Chapter Four. Salvation as the Reparation of Creation: The Roles of the Divine Intermediary in New Testament Christology -- Chapter Five. Salvation as the Undoing of Creation: The Roles of the Divine Intermediary in "Gnosticism" -- Chapter Six. Conclusion -- BackmatterMiddle Platonism explained how a transcendent principle could relate to the material world by positing an intermediary, modeled after the Stoic active cause, that mediated the supreme principle's influence to the world while preserving its transcendence. Having similar concerns as Middle Platonism, Hellenistic Jewish sapientialism, early Christianity, and Gnosticism appropriated this intermediary doctrine as a means for understanding their relationship to God and to the cosmos. However, these traditions vary in their adaptation of this teaching due to their distinctive understanding of creation and humanity's place therein. The Jewish writings of Philo of Alexandria and Wisdom of Solomon espouse a holistic ontology, combining a Platonic appreciation for noetic reality with an ultimately positive view of creation and its place in human fulfillment. The early Christians texts of 1 Cor 8:6, Col 1:15-20, Heb 1:2-3, and the prologue of John provide an eschatological twist to this ontology when the intermediary figure finds final expression in Jesus Christ. Contrarily, Poimandres (CH 1) and the Apocryphon of John, both associated with the traditional rubric "Gnosticism", draw from Platonism to describe how creation is antithetical to human nature and its transcendent source.Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft und die Kunde der älteren KircheCreationSalvationCreation.Salvation.220.6261.26BC 7415rvkCox Ronald1675837MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910810910303321By the same word4041598UNINA