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Liebe als Agape : Das frühchristliche Konzept und der moderne Diskurs
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ISBN: 9783161539435 3161539435 Year: 2015 Publisher: Tübingen Mohr Siebeck


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Der Nächste - der Fremde - der Feind.
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ISBN: 3429021693 Year: 2000 Publisher: Würzburg Echter


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Conversion in Luke and Paul : an exegetical and theological exploration.
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ISBN: 9780567209139 056720913X Year: 2012 Volume: 464 Publisher: London Clark


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The Oxford Handbook of New Testament, Gender, and Sexuality
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ISBN: 9780190213398 0190213396 Year: 2019 Publisher: New York, NY Oxford University Press

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Over several decades, scholarship in New Testament and early Christianity has drawn attention both to the ways in which ancient Mediterranean conceptions of embodiment, sexual difference, and desire were fundamentally different from modern ones and also to important lines of genealogical connection between the past and the present. The result is that the study of "gender" and "sexuality" in early Christianity has become an increasingly complex undertaking. This is a complexity produced not only by the intricacies of conflicting historical data, but also by historicizing approaches that query the very terms of analysis whereby we inquire into these questions in the first place. Yet at the same time, recent work on these topics has produced a rich and nuanced body of scholarly literature that has contributed substantially to our understanding of early Christian history and also proved relevant to ongoing theological and social debates. The Oxford Handbook of Gender and Sexuality in the New Testament provides a roadmap to this lively scholarly landscape, introducing both students and other scholars to the relevant problems, debates, and issues. Leading scholars in the field offer original contributions by way of synthesis, critical interrogation, and proposals for future questions, hypotheses, and research trajectories.


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Eucharistie als Quelle sozialen Handelns : eine biblisch-frühkirchliche Besinnung.
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ISBN: 9783788721442 Year: 2012 Publisher: Neukirchen-Vluyn Neukirchener Verlag.


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Prayer in the Gospels : a theological exegesis of the ideal pray-er
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ISBN: 9789004231061 9789004230576 Year: 2012 Volume: 114 Publisher: Leiden Boston Brill


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Roman faith and Christian faith : "Pistis" and "Fides" in the early Roman empire and early churches
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ISBN: 9780198724148 0198724144 0191791954 Year: 2015 Publisher: London Oxford University Press

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This study investigates why 'faith' (pistis/fides) was so important to early Christians that the concept and praxis dominated the writings of the New Testament. It argues that such a study must be interdisciplinary, locating emerging Christianities in the social practices and mentalites of contemporary Judaism and the early Roman empire. This can, therefore, equally be read as a study of the operation of pistis/fides in the world of the early Roman principate, taking one small but relatively well-attested cult as a case study in how micro-societies within that world could treat it distinctively. Drawing on recent work in sociology and economics, the book traces the varying shapes taken by pistis/fides in Greek and Roman human and divine-human relationships: whom or what is represented as easy or difficult to trust or believe in; where pistis/fides is 'deferred' and 'reified' in practices such as oaths and proofs; how pistis/fides is related to fear, doubt and scepticism; and which foundations of pistis/fides are treated as more or less secure. The book then traces the evolution of representations of human and divine-human pistis in the Septuagint, before turning to pistis/pisteuein in New Testament writings and their role in the development of early Christologies (incorporating a new interpretation of pistis Christou) and ecclesiologies. It argues for the integration of the study of pistis/pisteuein with that of New Testament ethics. It explores the interiority of Graeco-Roman and early Christian pistis/fides. Finally, it discusses eschatological pistis and the shape of the divine-human community in the eschatological kingdom.

The New Testament concept of witness
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ISBN: 0521210151 0521609348 0511520476 0511864973 9780521210157 Year: 1977 Volume: 31 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Terms like 'witness' and 'testimony' occur frequently in religious contexts and have special significance there, culminating in the development of the Greek martus (witness) into the English 'martyr'. They also have a legal context, and Professor Trites examines their use in the New Testament in the light of ancient legal practice. The author argues that the idea of witness is a live metaphor in the New Testament, to be understood in terms of the Old Testament legal assembly, though the Greek lawcourts are also relevant. The witness theme is developed in a sustained way in John, Acts and Revelation, and is also used in the Synoptic Gospels, the Pastoral and General Epistles, and Hebrews. In contexts of persecution and suffering the forensic metaphors tend to be identified with military ones, but in principle they are quite distinct. Professor Trites contends that the idea of witness in relation to Christ and his gospel plays an essential part in the New Testament and in Christian faith and life generally.

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