The Pauline churches: a socio-historical study of institutionalization in the Pauline and Deutero-Pauline writings
The author studies the Pauline corpus in order to trace the process of institutionalisation in the Pauline communities. She claims that development can be traced since we have not only letters from Paul himself, but also the Pastoral epistles from the beginning of the second century, as well as Ephe...
| Résumé: | The author studies the Pauline corpus in order to trace the process of institutionalisation in the Pauline communities. She claims that development can be traced since we have not only letters from Paul himself, but also the Pastoral epistles from the beginning of the second century, as well as Ephesians and Colossians, writings which are characteristic of the ambiguous period following the disappearance of the earliest authorities. This is the first substantial examination of the Pauline corpus from this angle; it also incorporates effectively insights from the social sciences. Paul: community-building institutionalization -- Colossians and Ephesians: community-stabilizing institutionalization -- The pastoral epistles: community-protecting institutionalization |
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| Description: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015) |
| ISBN: | 0511470452 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511470455 |