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

• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Routledge, , 1999
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xii, 444 pages)
• Disciplina: 248.4/7/09015
• Soggetto topico: Asceticism - History - Early church, ca. 30-600
• Altri autori: VaageLeif E WimbushVincent L
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Asceticism and the New Testament
• ISBN: 1-135-96223-5; 1-135-96224-3; 0-203-90430-3; 1-280-40734-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910817019003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II