Vaage / Wimbush Asceticism and the New Testament

Erscheinungsjahr 2002
ISBN: 978-1-135-96223-4
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 336 Seiten

First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Vaage, Leif E.

Wimbush, Vincent L.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Leif E. Vaage and Vincent L. Wimbush--Introduction

PART ONE: (ALL ABOUT) JESUS
Anthony J. Saldarini--Asceticism and the Gospel of Matthew
Mary Ann Tolbert--Asceticism and Mark's Gospel
Stephen J. Patterson--Askesis and the Early Jewish Tradition
Susan R. Garrett--Beloved Physician of the Soul?: Luke as Advocate for Ascetic Practice
Abraham Smith--"Full of Spirit and Wisdom": Luke's Portrait of Stephen (Acts 6:1-8:1a) as a Man of Self-Mastery
Turid Karlsen Seim--Children of the Resurrection: Perspectives on Angelic Asceticism in Luke-Acts
David Rensberger--Asceticism and the Gospel of John
John S. Kloppenborg--Making Sense of Difference: Asceticism, Gospel Literature and the Jesus Tradition

PART TWO: PAUL (THE REAL THING)
Ronald F. Hock--God's Will at Thessalonica and Greco-Roman Asceticism
Elizabeth A. Castelli--Disciples of Difference: Asceticism and History in Paul
Robin Scroggs--Paul the Prisoner: Political Asceticism in the Letter to the Philippians
Robin Scroggs--The Letter to Philemon and Asceticism
Richard Valantasis--Competing Ascetic Subjectivities in the Letter
Neil Elliott--Asceticism Among the "Weak" and "Strong" in Romans 14-15

PART THREE: IMITATIO PAULI
Jennifer Wright Knust-- 2 Thessalonians and the Discipline of Work
Margaret Y. MacDonald--Citizens of Heaven and Earth: Asceticism and Social Integration in Colossians and Ephesians
Gail Corrington Streete--Askesis and Resistance in the Pastoral Letters
Will Love--Where Is "This World" Headed?: Irony, World Renunciation and the Pauline Corpus

PART FOUR: UN-PAUL
Pamela Eisenbaum--The Virtue of Suffering, the Necessity of Discipline, and the Pursuit of Perfection in Hebrews
Alicia Batten--An Asceticism of Resistance in James
L. Wm. Countryman--Asceticism or Household Morality?: 1 and 2 Peter and Jude
L. Wm. Countryman--Asceticism in the Johannine Letters?
William Klassen--The Ascetic Way: Reflections on Peace, Justice and Vengeance in the Apocalypse of John
Alison Keith and Leif E. Vaage--Imperial Asceticism: Discipline of Domination

Leif E. Vaage and Vincent L. Wimbush--Epilogue: The New Testament and Asceticism

Über Autor(innen)

Leif E. Vaage is Associate Professor of New Testament Literature and Exegesis of Emmanuel College, Toronto School of Theology of the University of Toronto. He is the author of Galilean Upstarts (1994). Vincent L. Wimbush is Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins at Union Theological Seminary. He has edited several books and is the author of Paul the Worldly Ascetic (1987).