Endurance in Suffering: Hebrews 12:1-13 in Its Rhetorical, Religious, and Philosophical Context

ISBN-13: 9780521018913 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 264 str.

N. Clayton Croy; John Court

Opis

Hebrews 12:1-13 portrays the suffering of its readers with two images: an athletic contest, and God's fatherly discipline. N. Clayton Croy places this important passage in the context of Jewish and Greco-Roman traditions. He argues that the idea of "training" unites the passage, which presents Jesus as the supreme athlete. It also supports a nonpunitive understanding of discipline, in which God's children undergo a positive process of education. These ideas combine to support a call in Hebrews to faithful endurance rather than repentance.