RT Book
T1 Heavenly stories: tiered salvation in the New Testament and ancient Christianity
T2 Divinations: rereading late ancient religion
A1 Kocar, Alexander 1984-
LA English
PP Philadelphia
PB University of Pennsylvania Press
YR 2021
ED 1st edition
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1742315151
AB "This book examines a series of ancient Jewish and Christian authors who wrote teleological stories, or stories with fixed endings, to encourage their readers toward specific ethical conduct. For each of the case studies examined in this book, the fixed end point of their narratives is a divided heaven or multiple heavens, where the saved enjoy greater or lesser rewards. Furthermore, just as there was more than one heaven or salvific reward, there were multiple types of ethical conduct, tailored to whether you were a Jew or a gentile, a saint or a sinner, a spiritual (pneumatic) or merely soulish (psychic) person. A saint will enjoy a higher level of salvation because she behaved differently than a repentant sinner. Saints will remain saints, and sinners will remain sinners, and each class will enjoy a different level of salvation"--
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN BS2545.S25
SN 9780812253269
K1 Bible : New Testament : Criticism, interpretation, etc
K1 Salvation : Christianity : Biblical teaching
K1 Salvation : Christianity : History of doctrines : Early church, ca. 30-600
K1 Christian literature, Early : History and criticism
K1 Gnostic literature : Criticism, interpretation, etc
K1 Valentinians