Carey, G: Sinners

Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-1-4813-1477-0
Verlag: Baylor University Press

Buch, Englisch, 235 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

How did early Christians remember Jesus--and how did they develop their own "Christian" identities and communities? In this accessible and revelatory book, Greg Carey explores how transgression contributed to early Christian identity in the Gospels, Acts, Letters of Paul, and Revelation. Carey examines Jesus as a friend of sinners, challenger of purity laws, transgressor of conventional masculine values of his time, and convicted seditionist. He looks at early Christian communities as out of step with "respectable" practices of their time. Finally, he provides examples of contemporary Christians whose faith requires them to "do the right thing," even when it means violating current definitions of "respectability.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften Historisch-Kritische Jesusforschung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Preface
- Chapter 1: "How Do You Know She's a (Sinner)?"
- Chapter 2: Jesus, Friend of Sinners
- Chapter 3: Jesus and Impurity
- Chapter 4: We Were Deadbeats, Me and Paul
- Chapter 5: Jesus the Convicted Seditionist
- Interlude: The Sinless Jesus?
- Chapter 6: The Scandal(s) of the Cross
- Chapter 7: Flirting with Respectability
- Chapter 8: Persecuted
- Epilogue: Sinners in the Life of the Church

Über Autor(innen)

Greg Carey (Ph.D., Vanderbilt University) is Professor of New Testament, Lancaster Theological Seminary. Carey has also written: Ultimate Things: An Introduction to Jewish and Christian Apocalyptic Literature (2005), and Elusive Apocalypse: Reading Authority in the Revelation to John (1999).