Christians as 'resident and visiting aliens': implications of the exhortations to the παροίκοι and παρεπιδήμοι in 1 Peter for the church in South Africa

A socio-historic interpretation of the labeling of the addressees in 1 Peter as 'strangers of the Diaspora' and 'resident aliens' is given, in order to approximate the way in which the first hearers readers of the letter were involved in their society and exhorted by the author t...

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Main Author: van Rensburg, F. J. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: NTWSA 1998
In: Neotestamentica
Year: 1998, Volume: 32, Issue: 2, Pages: 573-583
Further subjects:B Theology
B Church
B Foreigners in first century Greco-Roman society
B Alien motif
B Sociology
B Christians in South Africa
B Peter
B Christianity
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Summary:A socio-historic interpretation of the labeling of the addressees in 1 Peter as 'strangers of the Diaspora' and 'resident aliens' is given, in order to approximate the way in which the first hearers readers of the letter were involved in their society and exhorted by the author to react to their situation. The implications of these exhortations for Christians in South Africa today are investigated.
ISSN:2518-4628
Contains:Enthalten in: Neotestamentica
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.10520/AJA2548356_462