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Leadership Succession In The World Of The Pauline Circle

by L. Stepp Perry

  • Paperback
  • 15.6 x 23.4 x 1.4 cm

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Since New Testament times, the discussion of leadership succession in the church has always been polemical. But what the New Testament, especially in the Pastoral Epistles, means in speaking of succession deserves a more sober investigation in the light of the literary tradition about succession in the ancient Mediterranean world. How is succession actually depicted in Graeco-Roman texts and in Jewish and early Christian texts of that world? This book undertakes, for the first time, a thoroughgoing analysis of the evidence, deftly laying out the data from a wide range of Greek and Roman writers. The question then becomes how the early readers of the New Testament, conditioned by prior knowledge of such epistolary and other literary conventions, would have interpreted Paul's relationship with his delegates like Timothy and Titus, and how they would have conceived the ministry portrayed in the Pastorals as passing from a leader to a successor. Stepp's study has important implications both for our understanding of the ancient Mediterranean world and for our conceptions of ordination and ministry in the New Testament.
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  • Book Format

    Paperback / softback

  • Publisher

    Sheffield Phoenix Press

  • Published

    June 2006

  • Edition

    New edition

  • Weight

    355g

  • Page Count

    248

  • Dimensions

    15.6 x 23.4 x 1.4 cm

  • ISBN

    9781905048731

  • ISBN-10

    1905048734

  • Eden Code

    1017003

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