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The Hope of Glory: Education and Exhortation in the Epistle to the Colossians

The Hope of Glory: Education and Exhortation in the Epistle to the Colossians

Wilson, Walter

Hardcover

Series: Supplements to Novum Testamentum (Brill), Book 88

Religion General General ChristianityInterior Design

ISBN10: 9004109374
ISBN13: 9789004109377
Publisher: Brill
Published: Nov 1 1997
Pages: 297
Weight: 1.61
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.52 Depth: 9.76
Language: English
This study explores the background, character, and function of Colossians as a form of theological education and appeal in the Pauline tradition. A historical, literary, rhetorical, and narrative analysis of the text shows how its theological affirmations and claims were presented so as to engage the life of its readers in practical ways and in practical contexts, especially in order to direct their moral formation as Christians and their self-understanding as a Christian community in a time of controversy. The specific strategies adopted by the author in designing his message and instructing the readers are familiar from Hellenistic conventions of moral and spiritual guidance, particularly those conventions associated with philosophic paraenesis, or moral exhortation for recent converts.

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