Asceticism And The New Testament
As a complex historical phenomenon, asceticism raises the question about ordinary impulses, the orientation and practices, the power dynamics and politics with transcendental religions. The question of the role of asceticism has often been overlooked in examining the New Testament. This book is both comprehensive and comparative in its representation of how the question of asceticism might reorder the way in which we interpret the New Testament.\ \ Looking at the New Testament from an...
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As a complex historical phenomenon, asceticism raises the question about ordinary impulses, the orientation and practices, the power dynamics and politics with transcendental religions. The question of the role of asceticism has often been overlooked in examining the New Testament. This book is both comprehensive and comparative in its representation of how the question of asceticism might reorder the way in which we interpret the New Testament. Looking at the New Testament from an ascetic perspective asks questions about issues including the milieu of Jesus and Paul, and the social practices of self-denial, and considers the Scriptural texts in light of a desire to separate oneself from the world. In interpreting all the books in the New Testament, this collection is the first effort to take seriously the crucial role played by asceticism—and its detractors—in the formation of the New Testament. Booknews Essays consider the complex phenomenon of asceticism in the books of the New Testament, a topic generally masked or underplayed within previous New Testament scholarship. Addressing each of the New Testament's books, perspectives and insights offered by the essays in this volume have enormous implications for the understanding of the ascetic impulse among early Christians. Lacks a subject index. The editors are associated with the University of Toronto and Union Theological Seminary. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
AcknowledgmentsList of ContributorsIntroduction1Pt. 1(All About) JESUS1Asceticism and the Gospel of Matthew112Asceticism and Mark's Gospel293Askesis and the Early Jesus Tradition494Beloved Physician of the Soul? Luke as Advocate for Ascetic Practice715"Full of Spirit and Wisdom": Luke's Portrait of Stephen (Acts 6:1-8:1a) as a Man of Self-Mastery976Children of the Resurrection: Perspectives on Angelic Asceticism in Luke-Acts1157Asceticism and the Gospel of John1278Making Sense of Difference: Asceticism, Gospel Literature, and the Jesus Tradition149Pt. 2PAUL (The Real Thing)9God's Will at Thessalonica and Greco-Roman Asceticism15910Disciplines of Difference: Asceticism and History in Paul17111Paul the Prisoner: Political Asceticism in the Letter to the Philippians18712The Letter to Philemon and Asceticism20913Competing Ascetic Subjectivities in the Letter to the Galatians21114Asceticism among the "Weak" and "Strong" in Romans 14-15231Pt. 3Imitatio PAULI152 Thessalonians and the Discipline of Work25516Citizens of Heaven and Earth: Asceticism and Social Integration in Colossians and Ephesians26917Askesis and Resistance in the Pastoral Letters29918Where Is "This World" Headed? Irony, World Renunciation, and the Pauline Corpus317Pt. 4Un-Paul19The Virtue of Suffering, the Necessity of Discipline, and the Pursuit of Perfection in Hebrews33120An Asceticism of Resistance in James35521Asceticism or Household Morality? 1 and 2 Peter and Jude37122Asceticism in the Johannine Letters?38323The Ascetic Way: Reflections on Peace, Justice, and Vengeance in the Apocalypse of John39324Imperial Asceticism: Discipline of Domination411Epilogue: The New Testament and Asceticism421Index427
\ BooknewsEssays consider the complex phenomenon of asceticism in the books of the New Testament, a topic generally masked or underplayed within previous New Testament scholarship. Addressing each of the New Testament's books, perspectives and insights offered by the essays in this volume have enormous implications for the understanding of the ascetic impulse among early Christians. Lacks a subject index. The editors are associated with the University of Toronto and Union Theological Seminary. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)\ \