S. H. Mathews

Christian Fasting

Biblical and Evangelical Perspectives

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

By analyzing Old and New Testament texts on fasting, Christian Fasting: Biblical and EvangelicalPerspectives reveals the social, cultural, and religious significance of this practice in the first-century Mediterranean world. It then compares the biblical representation of fasting with fasting in contemporary Evangelical literature and practice.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 164
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Januar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 398g
• ISBN-13: 9781498507530
• ISBN-10: 1498507530
• Artikelnr.: 41757390

Autorenporträt

By S.H. Mathews

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Chapter 1: An Anthropologist Reads the New Testament Chapter
2: Fasting in the Old Testament and Ancient Mediterranean World
Introduction Chapter 3: Fasting in the New Testament: A Social-Scientific
View of Fasting in the First-Century Mediterranean World Chapter 4: Fasting
in Evangelical Christianity Chapter 5: Evangelicalism and the New Testament
in Dialogue