Raymond Pickett

The Cross in Corinth (eBook, PDF)

The Social Significance of the Death of Jesus

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Pickett explores how Paul appealed to the death of Jesus in the Corinthian correspondence in order to promote a community ethos and ethic consistent with the ideals and values it symbolized. In so doing, Paul was responding to interpersonal conflicts within the community and criticisms of his ministry-criticisms he saw as founded on Graeco-Roman cultural values of the cultivated elite. His consistent emphasis on the weakness of the cross served to critique social expressions of power in Corinth. More constructively, Paul attempted to secure conduct befitting the gospel by invoking the death of Jesus as a symbol of other-regarding behaviour.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 1997
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780567346278
• Artikelnr.: 40780498

Autorenporträt

Dr Raymond Pickett is Assistant Professor of New Testament at Lutheran Seminary of the Southwest in Austin, Texas.