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First Christians In Their Social Worlds

Name: First Christians In Their Social Worlds
Price: 43.05 GBP
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Author: Philip F. Esler
ISBN: 9780415111225

Social-scientific Approaches to New Testament Interpretation

by Philip F. Esler

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176 pages
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
15.5 x 20.1 x 1.5 cm

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By applying perspectives from sociology and anthropology to a wide range of biblical data, The First Christians in Their Social Worlds examines how the New Testament documents were influenced by the social realities of the early Christian communities for whom they were written, with the result that the texts reveal an intimate connection between society and Gospel. Overlaying this theoretical foundation, Philip Esler's book studies specific socio-political ideas in various texts of the New Testament, for example, charismatic phenomena, the admission of Gentiles into early Christian communities, sectarianism and millennarianism and its relationship to political oppression.