Paul the Cosmopolitan?
The apostle Paul has been viewed by many as a cosmopolitan thinker who called Christ-followers to embrace the ideal of a single humanity living in harmony with a divinely ordered cosmos. A close comparison of Paul's apocalyptic theology with various interpretations of cosmopolitanism' ove...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
[2020]
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New Testament studies
Year: 2020, Volume: 66, Issue: 1, Pages: 144-163 |
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Paul Apostle
/ Cynicism
/ Stoa
/ Sect
/ Early Judaism
/ World citizen
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| IxTheo Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism HC New Testament HD Early Judaism KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity VA Philosophy |
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Stoic
B Cynic B cosmopolitan B Sectarian B Paul B universal |
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| Summary: | The apostle Paul has been viewed by many as a cosmopolitan thinker who called Christ-followers to embrace the ideal of a single humanity living in harmony with a divinely ordered cosmos. A close comparison of Paul's apocalyptic theology with various interpretations of cosmopolitanism' over the centuries, however, shows few points of agreement. Paul was fundamentally a Jewish sectarian whose vision for a better world embraced only Christ-followers and involved the cataclysmic end of the present world order. Those who accepted and lived by this vision were effectively relegated to the same marginal position in civic life as the local Jewish community. |
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| ISSN: | 1469-8145 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: New Testament studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0028688519000249 |