John Samuel Ruef (1927–2016)
Teoksen Paul's first letter to Corinth tekijä
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Tekijän teokset
Understanding the Gospels 2 kappaletta
Paul's First Letter to Corinth 1 kappale
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Yleistieto
- Syntymäaika
- 1927-01-24
- Kuolinaika
- 2016-10-31
- Sukupuoli
- male
- Syntymäpaikka
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Ammatit
- Episcopalian priest
professor - Organisaatiot
- Nashotah House
Jäseniä
Kirja-arvosteluja
Tilastot
- Teokset
- 4
- Jäseniä
- 87
- Suosituimmuussija
- #211,168
- Arvio (tähdet)
- 3.5
- Kirja-arvosteluja
- 1
- ISBN:t
- 5
The author doesn't speculate so much, but just enough to suggest that there were deep divisions between Paul and the 'Jerusalem Church', the latter being much more closely aligned to Christ as a Jewish phenomena while Paul was (by agreement with the latter) out on the fringes preaching to the Gentiles. None of this is particularly new, or controversial within Church scholarly inquiry. One of these days though I might find a book that looks at how the adherents of Paul and the Jerusalem Church shaped the policies of each, and how the Word of God was not so much conveyed as 'marketed', and was - as it were - 'poll driven' rather than divine revelation. Paul's letters were clearly about bringing into line folk who were profoundly steeped in pan-Hellenic traditions of commerce rather than Jewish mysticism, and who seemed much less inclined to define themselves by an act of genital mutilation and exclusive eating practices than by rules of social (and commercial) engagement. The unravelling of that - I suspect - might be found in a study of the language of the early Greek Gospels, and in a study of the social and religious context of those cities (and the people who lived there) where Paul was preaching.… (lisätietoja)