Asceticism and the New Testament / edited by Leif E. Vaage, Vincent L. Wimbush.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Vaage, Leif E.

Wimbush, Vincent L.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible. New Testament--Criticism, interpretation, etc--Congresses.

Bible.

Asceticism--History--Early church, ca. 30-600--Congresses.

Asceticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 444 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book is both comprehensive and comparative in its representation of how the question of asceticism might reorder the way in which we interpret the New Testament.

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Contributors; Introduction; Asceticism and the Gospel of Matthew; Asceticism and Mark's Gospel; Askesis and the Early Jesus Tradition; Beloved Physician of the Soul? Luke as Advocate for Ascetic Practice; ~Full of Spirit and Wisdom~: Luke's Portrait of Stephen (Acts 6:1 8:1a) as a Man of Self-Mastery; Children of the Resurrection: Perspectives on Angelic Asceticism in Luke-Acts; Asceticism and the Gospel of John; Making Sense of Difference: Asceticism, Gospel Literature, and the Jesus Tradition

God's Will at Thessalonica and Greco-Roman AsceticismDisciplines of Difference: Asceticism and History in Paul; Paul the Prisoner: Political Asceticism in the Letter to the Philippians; The Letter to Philemon and Asceticism; Competing Ascetic Subjectivities in the Letter to the Galatians; Asceticism among the ~Weak~ and ~Strong~ in Romans 14 15; 2 Thessalonians and the Discipline of Work; Citizens of Heaven and Earth: Asceticism and Social Integration in Colossians and Ephesians; Askesis and Resistance in the Pastoral Letters

Where Is ~This World~ Headed? Irony, World Renunciation, and the Pauline CorpusThe Virtue of Suffering, the Necessity of Discipline, and the Pursuit of Perfection in Hebrews; An Asceticism of Resistance in James; Asceticism or Household Morality? 1 and 2 Peter and Jude; Asceticism in the Johannine Letters?; The Ascetic Way: Reflections on Peace, Justice, and Vengeance in the Apocalypse of John; Imperial Asceticism: Discipline of Domination; Epilogue: The New Testament and Asceticism; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-135-96223-5

1-135-96224-3

0-203-90430-3

1-280-40734-4

9780203904305

OCLC:

560054407