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Christian fasting : biblical and evangelical perspectives / S. H. Mathews.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mathews, S. H., 1977- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fasting--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Fasting.
- Fasting--Biblical teaching.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (165 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Through the lens of social-scientific criticism, Christian Fasting: Biblical and EvangelicalPerspectives explores the social, cultural, and religious significance of fasting in the first-century Mediterranean world.
- Contents:
- An anthropologist reads the New Testament
- Fasting in the Old Testament and ancient Mediterranean world introduction
- Fasting in the New Testament: a social-scientific view of fasting in the first-century Mediterranean world
- Fasting in evangelical Christianity
- Evangelicalism and the New Testament in dialogue.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-4985-0754-9
- OCLC:
- 902674603
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