Alexander Kocar

Heavenly Stories

Tiered Salvation in the New Testament and Ancient Christianity

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Produktbeschreibung

Salvation is often thought to be an all-or-nothing matter: you are either saved or damned. Heavenly Stories examines how some important thinkers in the ancient world, including Paul the Apostle, John of Patmos, Hermas, the Sethians, and the Valentinians, believed that salvation comes in degrees.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Global Center for Resiliency & Wellbeing
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 150mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780812253269
• ISBN-10: 0812253264
• Artikelnr.: 61118530

Autorenporträt

Alexander Kocar

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Differing Salvations, Differing Ethics
Part I. The Salvation of Jews and Gentiles: Higher and Lower Levels of
Salvation in the Letters of the Apostle Paul and John of Patmos's
Revelation
Chapter 1. John's Heavenly City: The Book of Revelation and Jewish
Narratives of Salvation
Chapter 2. Paul's Olive Tree: Saving Gentiles as Gentiles and Jews as Jews
in Christ
Part II. Saints and Sinners in Early Christianity: Ethical Differences as
Salvific Hierarchies in the Shepherd of Hermas and the Apocryphon of John
Chapter 3. In Heaven as It Is on Earth: Ethical and Salvific Differences in
the Shepherd of Hermas and the Apocryphon of John
Chapter 4. Diagnosing Sin and Saving Sinners: Early Christian Ethical and
Soteriological Problem-Solving
Part III. The Threefold Division of Humanity: Identity, Soteriology, and
Moral Responsibility in the Excerpts of Theodotus, the Tripartite Tractate
, and Heracleon's Commentary on John
Chapter 5. Mapping the Heavens: The Missionizing Ethics and Soteriology of
Valentinians
Chapter 6. The Threefold Division and Exegesis: Ethics in Heracleon's
Commentary on John
Conclusion. Moral Imagination and Ancient Christianity
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments