This book offers a close reading of Romans that treats Paul as a radical political thinker by showing the relationship between Paul's perspective and that of secular political theorists. Turning to both ancient political philosophers (Plato, Aristotle, and Cicero) and contempora…
"Paul is the most powerful human personality in the history of the Church. A missionary, theologian, and religious genius, he laid down in his epistles the foundations on which later Christian theology was built. In this highly original introduction to Paul's life and thought, E…
Dr Ziesler's starting point is St Paul's view of Jesus Christ as marking the end of an era and the beginning of a new world and a new humanity.
Paul as pastor
Biographical note: Otto Zwierlein, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn. In Auseinandersetzung mit der Debatte über Petrus und Paulus in Rom und dem daraus abgeleiteten Primat der römischen Kirche werden die Thesen des Petrusbuchs UaLG 96 (2009, 22010) verteidigt und …
Anti-Judaism in early Christianity
by Richardson, Peter, Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion, Granskou, David M., Wilson, S. G., Canadian Society of Biblical Studies, Meeting., (49th, 1981, Dalhousie University), Canadian Society of Biblical Studies, (50th, 1982, Ottawa, Ont.)., Meeting
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The second volume in this two-volume work studying the initial developments of anti-Judaism within the church examines the evolution of the Christian faith in its social context as revealed by evidence such as early patristic and rabbinic writings and archaeological findings.