The Shepherd-flock Motif in the Miletus Discourse (Acts 20:17-38) Against Its Historical Background
The Shepherd-flock Motif in the Miletus Discourse (Acts 20:17-38) Against Its Historical Background

Author: Bernard Aubert

Publisher: Peter Lang

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 428

ISBN-13: 9781433105708

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The Shepherd-Flock Motif in the Miletus Discourse (Acts 20:17-38) Against Its Historical Background provides a comprehensive survey of the use of the shepherd-flock motif in the ancient world for the readers of the New Testament. This review of Ancient Near Eastern, Jewish, Greco-Roman, and Christian sources is guided by a motific approach that integrates the concept of metaphor, Semantics, and the comparative method. A chief concern of this study is to apply this knowledge to the study of Luke-Acts, especially the Miletus Discourse (Acts 20:17-38). The shepherd-flock motif appears to be central in this speech and helps to integrate other motifs and themes in this discourse, such as the kingship motif. The Shepherd-Flock Motif in the Miletus Discourse (Acts 20:17-38) Against Its Historical Background is indispensable to the study of motifs in the New Testament and contributes meaningfully to the scholarly research on Luke-Acts.

Conceptual Blending in Early Christian Discourse
Conceptual Blending in Early Christian Discourse

Author: Aleksander Gomola

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2018-03-19

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 311058204X

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Cognitive linguists and biblical and patristic scholars have recently given more attention to the presence of conceptual blends in early Christian texts, yet there has been so far no comprehensive study of the general role of conceptual blending as a generator of novel meanings in early Christianity as a religious system with its own identity. This monograph points in that direction and is a cognitive linguistic exploration of pastoral metaphors in a wide range of patristic texts, presenting them as variants of THE CHURCH IS A FLOCK network. Such metaphors or blends, rooted in the Bible, were used by Patristic writers to conceptualize a great number of particular notions that were constitutive for the early church, including the responsibilities of the clergy and the laity, morality and penance, church unity, baptism and soteriology. This study shows how these blends became indispensable building blocks of a new religious system and explains the role of conceptual blending in this process. The book is addressed to biblical and patristic scholars interested in a new, unifying perspective for various strands of early Christian thought and to cognitive linguists interested in the role of conceptual integration in religious language. Produced with the support of the Faculty of Philology, Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland.

The Gospel and the Gospels
The Gospel and the Gospels

Author: Simon J. Gathercole

Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Published: 2022-08-11

Total Pages: 478

ISBN-13: 1467465402

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A robust scholarly defense of the distinctiveness of the canonical Gospels. Do the four New Testament gospels share some essence that distinguishes them from noncanonical early Gospels? The tendency among biblical scholars of late has been to declare the answer to this question no—that Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John were grouped together by happenstance and are defended as canonical today despite there being no essential commonalities between them. Simon Gathercole challenges this prevailing view and argues that in fact the theological content of the New Testament Gospels distinguishes them substantially from noncanonical Gospels. Gathercole shows how the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John each include four key points that also formed the core of early Christian preaching and teaching: Jesus’s identity as messiah, the saving death of Jesus, the resurrection of Jesus, and Scripture’s foretelling of the Christ event. In contrast, most noncanonical Gospels—like the Gospel of Thomas, the Gospel of Truth, and Marcion’s Gospel—only selectively appropriated these central concerns of early Christian proclamation.

Who Were the First Christians?
Who Were the First Christians?

Author: Thomas Arthur Robinson

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 0190620544

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Challenges the consensus view of the urban character of early Christianity Demonstrates that almost every scenario in reconstructing early Christian growth is mathematically improbable and in many case impossible unless a rural dimension of the Christian movement is factored in Points to the likelihood that the marginal and the rustic made up a larger part of its membership than is generally recognized.

Pastoral Ministry
Pastoral Ministry

Author: Deron J. Biles

Publisher: B&H Publishing Group

Published: 2017-11-01

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 1462751091

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Pastoral Ministry brings together the mandate of God, the needs of the sheep, and the model of the good Shepherd to uniquely inspire and equip you to fulfill your ministry as a shepherd.

Evidence Unseen
Evidence Unseen

Author: James Rochford

Publisher: New Paradigm Pub.

Published: 2013-05-20

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780983668169

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Evidence Unseen is the most accessible and careful though through response to most current attacks against the Christian worldview.

World History as the History of Foundations, 3000 BCE to 1500 CE
World History as the History of Foundations, 3000 BCE to 1500 CE

Author: Michael Borgolte

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2019-10-29

Total Pages: 783

ISBN-13: 9004415084

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In World History as the History of Foundations, 3000 BCE to 1500 CE, Michael Borgolte investigates the origins and development of foundations from Antiquity to the end of the Middle Ages. In his survey foundations emerge not as mere legal institutions, but rather as “total social phenomena” which touch upon manifold aspects, including politics, the economy, art and religion of the cultures in which they emerged. Cross-cultural in its approach and the result of decades of research, this work represents by far the most comprehensive account of the history of foundations that has hitherto been published.

The State of Nature: Histories of an Idea
The State of Nature: Histories of an Idea

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Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2021-12-13

Total Pages: 440

ISBN-13: 9004499628

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Combining intellectual history with current concerns, this volume brings together fourteen essays on the past, present and possible future applications of the legal fiction known as the state of nature.

Reformation Worship
Reformation Worship

Author: Jonathan Gibson

Publisher: New Growth Press

Published: 2018-04-23

Total Pages: 490

ISBN-13: 194813022X

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Worship is the right, fitting, and delightful response of moral beings—angelic and human—to God the Creator, Redeemer, and Consummator, for who he is as one eternal God in three persons—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit—and for what he has done in creation and redemption, and for what he will do in the coming consummation, to whom be all praise ...

Ovid on Screen
Ovid on Screen

Author: Martin M. Winkler

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-01-30

Total Pages: 491

ISBN-13: 1108485405

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The first study of Ovid, especially his Metamorphoses, as inherently visual literature, explaining his pervasive importance in our visual media.