Author: A. Duane Litfin
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9780521451789
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 328

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A book which puts an entirely new perspective on the manner in which Paul operated as a preacher.

Author: Duane Litfin
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 0830898557
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 397

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Duane Litfin, former president of Wheaton College, explores how Paul's theology of preaching can inform the church's preaching today. Through a detailed study of 1 Corinthians 1-4, Litfin shows how Paul's method of proclamation differed from Greco-Roman rhetoric and how Pauline preaching can be a model for the contemporary preaching task.

Author: Michael P. Knowles
Publisher: Brazos Press
ISBN: 1587432110
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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Holds Paul up as a model of faithful and effective preaching to help pastors and seminarians evaluate their own preaching.

Author: James D. G. Dunn
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 9780802844231
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 854

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Using Paul's letter to the Romans as the foundation for his monumental study of Paul's theology, James D. G. Dunn describes Paul's teaching on God, sin, humankind, Christology, salvation, the church, and the nature of the Christian life.

Author: N. T. Wright
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 080287178X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 245

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Based on various lectures given at various places and times.

Author: Duane Litfin
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 0830824715
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 397

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Duane Litfin, former president of Wheaton College, explores how Paul's theology of preaching can inform the church's preaching today. Through a detailed study of 1 Corinthians 1-4, Litfin shows how Paul's method of proclamation differed from Greco-Roman rhetoric and how Pauline preaching can be a model for the contemporary preaching task.

Author: Robert Dutch
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0567104613
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 369

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This book examines the educated elite in 1 Corinthians through the development, and application, of an ancient education model. The research reads Paul's text within the social world of early Christianity and uses social-scientific criticism in reconstructing a model that is appropriate for first-century Corinth. Pauline scholars have used models to reconstruct elite education but this study highlights their oversight in recognising the relevancy of the Greek Gymnasium for education. Topics are examined in 1 Corinthians to demonstrate where the model advances an understanding of Paul's interaction with the elite Corinthian Christians in the context of community conflict. This study demonstrates the important contribution that this ancient education model makes in interpreting 1 Corinthians in a Graeco-Roman context. This is Volume 271 of JSNTS.

Author: Andrew D. Clarke
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 0567525279
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 221

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Scholarly studies consider Paul's views on leadership tend to fall into one of three camps: 1) the historical development view, which in large measure identifies developments in church practice with developments in Pauline and deutero-Pauline ecclesiology; 2) the synchronic, historical reconstruction, typically making use of Graeco-Roman, social context sources, or social-scientific modelling, focusing on a single congregation, and sometimes distinguishing between the situation to which Paul was responding and the pattern he sought to impose; and 3) the theological/hermeneutical analysis, identifying Paul's particular approach to power and authority, often independently of any detailed reconstruction of the situations to which Paul was responding. Andrew Clarke has explored in an earlier work, Serve the Community of the Church (Eerdmans, 2000), the distinctive, local and historical situations in the various Pauline communities and concluded that there is no evidence that they organised themselves according to a common set of governmental structures which clearly developed with the passage of time. Rather each community was influenced by its own localized, social and cultural context. The present project builds on this, and necessarily focuses on leadership style rather than church order. It seeks to recover from Paul's critical responses, his generic ethos of church leadership, including the ideal qualities, characteristics and task of leaders and the nature of appropriate interaction and engagement with church members. In the light of current, theoretical discussions about power and gender, the study focuses particularly on Paul's attitude towards hierarchy, egalitarianism, authority, responsibility and privilege.

Author: David A. Christensen
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1725266016
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 187

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How can we preach persuasively without huckstering, manipulating, or coercing people? Sadly, we are seeing the fall of many pastors not for reasons of sexual immorality, but the pursuit of pride and power. The skillful use of marketing methods creates celebrity pastors who become significant influencers in the evangelical church. The lure of success is seductive, turning pastors into hucksters and Christians into consumers. We need to heed the warnings of the New Testament about the pride of rhetoric and the pursuit of power. David Christensen carefully analyzes the biblical warnings of Paul about the temptations of rhetorical sophistry in the first-century church and applies them to pastoral ministry today. God calls preachers to be ethical and effective persuaders. David develops an ethical grid for pastoral persuasion using principles drawn from the Bible and social science along with practical illustrations from his years of ministry. He calls preachers to be ethical and effective persuaders by emphasizing the centrality of the word of God while depending on the power of the Spirit of God.

Author: Bruce W. Winter
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9780521591089
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 328

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A study of Philo and Paul and the first-century sophistic movement.