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New Testament Christological Hymns

by Matthew E. Gordley

  • Paperback
  • Publisher: Intervarsity Press (IVP Academic)
  • 15 x 22.7 x 1.8 cm

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For students and scholars of early Christian worship

Uncovers the presence of hymns in the New Testament

You will gain insights into early Christian beliefs

Explore the significance of early Christian hymns in the New Testament.

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We know that the earliest Christians sang hymns. Paul encourages believers to sing "psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs." And at the dawn of the second century the Roman official Pliny names a feature of Christian worship as "singing alternately a hymn to Christ as to God." But are some of these early Christian hymns preserved for us in the New Testament? Are they right before our eyes? New Testament scholars have long debated whether early Christian hymns appear in the New Testament. And where some see preformed hymns and liturgical elements embossed on the page, others see patches of rhetorically elevated prose from the author's hand. Matthew Gordley now reopens this fascinating question. He begins with a new look at hymns in the Greco-Roman and Jewish world of the early church. Might the didactic hymns of those cultural currents set a new starting point for talking about hymnic texts in the New Testament? If so, how should we detect these hymns? How might they function in the New Testament? And what might they tell us about early Christian worship? An outstanding feature of texts such as Philippians 2:6-11, Colossians 1:15-20, and John 1:1-17 is their christological character. And if these are indeed hymns, we encounter the reality that within the crucible of worship the deepest and most searching texts of the New Testament arose. New Testament Christological Hymns reopens an important line of investigation that will serve a new generation of students of the New Testament.
New Testament Christological Hymns and The Colossian Hymn in Context: An Exegesis in Light of Jewish and Greco-Roman Hymnic and Epistolary Conventions
The Colossian Hymn in Context: An Exegesis in Light of Jewish and Greco-Roman Hymnic and Epistolary ConventionsNew Testament Christological Hymns

  • Author

    Matthew E. Gordley

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Intervarsity Press (IVP Academic)

  • Published

    August 2018

  • Weight

    386g

  • Dimensions

    15 x 22.7 x 1.8 cm

  • ISBN

    9780830852093

  • ISBN-10

    0830852093

  • Eden Code

    4689800

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