The Reception of Paul and Early Christian Initiation: History and Hermeneutics

ISBN-13: 9781108471312 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 340 str.

Benjamin Edsall

Opis

Situates Pauline analysis within the context of early Christian institutions. Examines the hermeneutics of reception-historical studies.

Recenzje

'… this volume is a study in the reception history of Paul and the development of early Christianity that … has important implications for the study of the NT. The volume will be of interest to Pauline scholars and church historians, and deserves a wide readership.' Jason Maston, Religious Studies Review

Spis treści

1. Introduction; 2. Catechesis and the catechumenate – an historical sketch; 3. Narrating the catechist in the acts of Paul; 4. Clement's pedagogical interpretation – milk and meat; 5. Cultivating the soul – Origen's catechetical Paul; 6. Paul the catechist, Chrysostom and the fourth century; 7. Textual resources and a catechetical Paul; 8. Conclusion – reception as iteration – a sketch.