Cynics, Paul and the Pauline Churches

ISBN-13: 9780415642804 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 384 str.

F. Gerald Downing

Opis

This volume explores the teachings of Paul, arguing that the development of Paul's preaching and of the Pauline Church owed a great deal to the views of the vagabond Cynic philosophers, critics of the gods and of the ethos of civic society.

Recenzje

'Downing writes with an excitement which ... is itself persuasive. He also writes with a historian's sensitivity to the fragility of all evidence from so remote a date.' - C.J.A. Hickling, Journal of Theological Studies

'This is a stimulating and thought-provoking book.' - Christopher Tuckett, Theology

O autorze

F. Gerald Downing is Vicar of the parish of St. Simon and St. Jude, Great Lever, Bolton. He is the author of numerous books including Christ and the Cynics (JSOT/SAC 1998) and Cynics and Christian Origins (T & T Clark 1992).