In recent years, religiously inspired individuals have perpetrated numerous acts of violence, while millions of other faithful live quiet and kindly lives. Both see their actions as guided by the divine. In order to address this puzzle, John A. Jillions turns to the first-century world of Corinth, where Jews, Gentiles, and early Christians intermixed and vigorously debated issues of divine guidance, delusion, and decision-making. This book draws on these ancient insights to offer an outline for the twenty-first century and suggest criteria for assessing guidance perceived as divine.
In recent years, religiously inspired individuals have perpetrated numerous acts of violence, while millions of other faithful live quiet and kindly lives. Both see their actions as guided by the divine. In order to address this puzzle, John A. Jillions turns to the first-century world of Corinth, where Jews, Gentiles, and early Christians intermixed and vigorously debated issues of divine guidance, delusion, and decision-making. This book draws on these ancient insights to offer an outline for the twenty-first century and suggest criteria for assessing guidance perceived as divine.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
John A. Jillions did his doctoral research at Tyndale House, Cambridge, and Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, where he received a PhD in New Testament in 2002. He has MDiv and DMin degrees from St Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary and a BA in Economics from McGill University. He was founding Principal of the Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies in Cambridge, Associate Professor of Theology at Saint Paul University in Canada, and served for seven years in New York as Chancellor of the Orthodox Church in America. He is currently Associate Professor of Religion and Culture at St Vladimir's Seminary and teaches "Faith and Critical Reason" at Fordham University. He has been a priest since 1984, serving communities in Australia, Greece, England, Canada and the United States, where he now serves as pastor of Holy Ghost Church in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
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* Contents * Acknowledgments * Abbreviations * Introduction: Divine Guidance in the 1st and 21st centuries * Part I. Divine Guidance Among Greeks and Romans: Corinth as a Case Study * * 1. Roman Corinth * 2. The Archeology of Divine Guidance in Corinth * 3. The Literature of Divine Guidance: Homer, Virgil and Horace * 4. Other Roman Writers: Propertius, Ovid, Livy, Lucan and Petronius * 5. The Stoic Philosopher Posidonius * 6. Roman Philosophers: Lucretius, Cicero, Seneca, Pliny * 7. Plutarch: Greco-Roman Bridge Between Rational and Mystical * Part II. Divine Guidance Among Jews * 8. The Jewish Community * 9. Philo * 10. Josephus * 11. The Dead Sea Scrolls, Pseudepigrapha, and "Expansions of Scripture" * 12. Rabbinic Sources * Part III. Paul * 13. Neither Jew nor Greek: 1 Corinthians, Paul's Primer on Divine Guidance * Part IV. Reprise: Divine Guidance in the 1st and 21st Centuries * 14. Divine Guidance: Continuing the Conversation into the Twenty-First Century * Notes * Bibliography * Index
* Contents * Acknowledgments * Abbreviations * Introduction: Divine Guidance in the 1st and 21st centuries * Part I. Divine Guidance Among Greeks and Romans: Corinth as a Case Study * * 1. Roman Corinth * 2. The Archeology of Divine Guidance in Corinth * 3. The Literature of Divine Guidance: Homer, Virgil and Horace * 4. Other Roman Writers: Propertius, Ovid, Livy, Lucan and Petronius * 5. The Stoic Philosopher Posidonius * 6. Roman Philosophers: Lucretius, Cicero, Seneca, Pliny * 7. Plutarch: Greco-Roman Bridge Between Rational and Mystical * Part II. Divine Guidance Among Jews * 8. The Jewish Community * 9. Philo * 10. Josephus * 11. The Dead Sea Scrolls, Pseudepigrapha, and "Expansions of Scripture" * 12. Rabbinic Sources * Part III. Paul * 13. Neither Jew nor Greek: 1 Corinthians, Paul's Primer on Divine Guidance * Part IV. Reprise: Divine Guidance in the 1st and 21st Centuries * 14. Divine Guidance: Continuing the Conversation into the Twenty-First Century * Notes * Bibliography * Index
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