Angels and Principalities: The Background, Meaning and Development of the Pauline Phrase hai archai kai hai exousiai (Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series)
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| Rating | : | 4.42 (713 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0521234298 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-05-03 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
A controversial piece of scholarship. A Customer This book caused quite a stir when it was first published, since it appeared to destroy the consensus that had existed on the language of power in the New Testament. Carr's thesis is that there are no such thing as evil spirits - power is only good. To support this thesis he ignores crucial evidence, mistr
First there is the New Testament itself. He concludes that the notion of mighty forces of evil ranged against man was not part of the earliest Christian understanding of the world and the gospel. The general Mediterranean cultural background of the first century is also important, and the author looks at evidence from the early Church Fathers and gnostic material. His argument has special significance in the light of the belief that a present-day interpretation may be given to the idea of hostile powers and their conquest by Christ, thus supporting political, social and ethical thinking within the Christian Church.. St Paul and his contemporaries - so runs a commonly accepted scholarly opinion - inhabited a world believed to be dominated by hostile superhuman powers, of whom Jews and Genti