“Making My Prayer with Joy”: Epistolary Prayer as Emotional Practice in Philippians and 1 Thessalonians

Drawing on recent literature in the history of emotions, this article describes Paul’s epistolary prayers as emotional practices that aim to harmonize and amplify the emotions of Paul and his addressees, particularly shared joy and longing. In Philippians and 1 Thessalonians, philophronetic topoi an...

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Main Author: Schellenberg, Ryan S. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2022
In: Novum Testamentum
Year: 2022, Volume: 64, Issue: 1, Pages: 79-98
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Paul Apostle / Philippians / Bible. Thessalonicherbrief 1. / Prayer / Emotion / Joy / Municipality / Letter
IxTheo Classification:HC New Testament
Further subjects:B history of emotions
B Joy
B emotional practices
B philophronetic letters
B Paul
B Prayer
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