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1 Corinthians 7 in the Light of the Jewish Greek and Aramaic Marriage and Divorce Papyri

Tyndale Bulletin, 2001
The first half of this study explored 1 Corinthians 7 in the light of the Graeco-Roman Greek and Latin marriage and divorce papyri.1 These papyri showed that much of 1 Corinthians 7 has its basis in Graeco-Roman vocabulary and social structures.
David Instone-Brewer
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Angels as arguments? The rhetorical function of references to angels in the Main Letters of Paul

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2011
The issue investigated in this article is the rhetorical function fulfilled by the references to angels in the Main Letters of Paul. For this purpose all the references to angels in Galatians, 1 and 2 Corinthians and Romans are investigated ...
D. Francois Tolmie
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The Theological Poetics of Pauline κένωσις in Patristic Authors: A Dialogue with Michael C. Magree☆

International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract This review engages in dialogue with Magree's methodological assumptions (literary, rhetorical, philosophical and theological) and approach to the history of reception of this critically important Pauline passage (Philippians 2:7) and then provides a critical assessment of the textual evidence for his contention that Origen of Alexandria ...
Margaret M. Mitchell
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1 Corinthians 7:6-7: A Caveat and a Framework for the 'Sayings' in 7:8-24

Tyndale Bulletin, 1997
It is the case that, with verbs of saying, the neuter demonstrative pronoun ('this') often introduces the subordinate clause with an implied 'that' (as in, 'I say this, [that]…’ We contend that this same construction in 1 Corinthians 7:6 helps to unlock ...
Bruce W. Winter
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Becoming Dostoevsky (how Rowan Williams opens up Bakhtin)

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract With the end of Communism in Russia, non‐materialist contexts were enthusiastically restored to Mikhail Bakhtin's globally famous ideas of carnival, dialogism, and polyphony. This essay surveys Rowan Williams's 2008 study Dostoevsky: Language, Faith + Fiction as a major contribution to this effort, concentrating on those general philosophical ...
Caryl Emerson
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1 Corinthians 14:26-40 in the Theological Rhetoric of the Admonition Controversy

Perichoresis: The Theological Journal of Emanuel University, 2014
This paper discusses competing notions of the concept of ‘order’ in the Admonition Controversy with respect to the interpretation of the decorum of 1 Corinthians 14:26-30, a text principally concerned with order in worship.
Graves Daniel F.
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Scriptural Re-Interpretation and Social Identity Negotiation in the Corinthian Letters

Religions, 2023
This article describes the socially formative function of the Corinthian letters and the role that Paul’s reinterpretation of scripture plays in shaping the Corinthians’ social identity.
Darlene M. Seal
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THE FATHERS, COMPUTERS AND US

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract This essay, designed as a complement to opinions expressed by Rowan Williams and some speakers at the conference in his honour, explores features of early Christianity which suggest a positive evaluation of artificial intelligence. Noting that the fear of reducing humans to machines has been joined in the modern age by the fear that machines ...
Mark J. Edwards
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The Diremption of Meaning

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract Examining work by Rowan Williams, this essay explores what he often refers to as the ‘difficulty’ of writing theology. The difficulty of theology lies in engaging the ruse of having ultimate answers to ultimate questions. The stakes are high: ‘God‐talk’ must concern itself with truth, with reality.
Graham Ward
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Theodor Steinbüchel's Great Figures of Christian Humanism

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract Theodor Steinbüchel (1888–1949) offers a study of eight figures in Western history who may be regarded as gestalts of Christian Humanism. He argued that none of these eight figures will ever return in the same way, but since there was an eternal conception of Christianity to which their ethos gave human form, each of these gestalts can be ...
Tracey Rowland
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