Paul J. Brown

Bodily Resurrection and Ethics in 1 Cor 15 (eBook, PDF)

Connecting Faith and Morality in the Context of Greco-Roman Mythology

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

New Testament scholars have long recognized a relationship between the future resurrection and ethics. Paul J. Brown contributes to this ongoing discussion by tracing Paul's logic for connecting the moral imperatives in 1 Cor 15 to the bodily resurrection. The author examines the afterlife belief system of the resurrection-deniers and proposes that their eschatology was informed by Greco-Roman mythology. This enabled the Corinthians to embrace the bodily resurrection of Jesus as a hero and reject the prospect of their own. Brown suggests that Paul strategically leveraged their Greco-Roman thinking in his discussion of the resurrection to argue that their in-Christ status made them partakers of the Messiah's beatific afterlife, and that the Greco-Roman practice of patron emulation should motivate them to live in imitation of the heavenly man.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Mohr Siebeck
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Januar 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783161530395
• Artikelnr.: 45425832

Autorenporträt

Born 1961; 1985 BM in Musical Studies and 1989 MM in Music Theory; 1997 MDiv; 2012 PhD in Theology (New Testament) at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Chicago, USA; currently Lecturer in Biblical Studies at Trinity College, Chicago, USA.