Theology and Practice in Early Christianity
Essays New and Old with Updated Reception Histories
by Troy W. Martin
Hardback (Published)
(August 2020)
ISBN: 9783161548116
9.09 x 6.06 inches
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Early Christianity did not originate in a vacuum but in a world of linguistic, social, religious, and cultural richness and diversity. The twenty-two seminal essays in this volume – some previously published, some newly written – represent almost three decades of research by Troy W. Martin to understand how early Christianity developed in the ancient world. The broad-ranging investigations in these essays give attention not only to the linguistic and rhetorical features of early Christian texts, but also to the social, philosophical, physiological, and medical contexts in which these texts were written. The essays provide new understandings of early Christian conceptions of salvation and of the virtues of faith, hope and love that characterized early Christian communities. They include new medical and physiological explanations of early Christian sacraments, pneumatology, and eschatology and furthermore investigate early Christian communal life and practice, including the veiling of women, male/female relationships, and time-keeping. The essays include reception histories that describe their influence on subsequent research and place them within the context of contemporary research and scholarship. Those familiar with the well-trodden ground of New Testament studies will find in these essays new insights and previously unexplored comparative material for understanding early Christianity and the world in which it originated.
- By (author) Troy W Martin
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Pseudepigraphie und Verfasserfiktion in frühchristlichen Briefen
Pseudepigraphy and Author Fiction in Early Christian Letters
Lutherische und Neue Paulusperspektive
Beitrage zu einem Schlusselproblem der gegenwartigen exegetischen Diskussion
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Griechen – Byzantiner – Semiten – Muslime
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Wechselseitige Wahrnehmungen. III. Internationales Symposium zum Corpus Judaeo-Hellenisticum Novi Testamenti 21.-24. Mai 2009, Leipzig
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Christ-Believers in Ephesus
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Volume 242
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Fifth International East-West Symposium of New Testament Scholars, Minsk, September 2 to 9, 2010
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