The Pauline churches: a socio-historical study of institutionalization in the Pauline and Deutero-Pauline writings

The author studies the Pauline corpus in order to trace the process of institutionalisation in the Pauline communities. She claims that development can be traced since we have not only letters from Paul himself, but also the Pastoral epistles from the beginning of the second century, as well as Ephe...

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Main Author: MacDonald, Margaret Y. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1988
Series:Society for New Testament Studies monograph series 60
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Summary:The author studies the Pauline corpus in order to trace the process of institutionalisation in the Pauline communities. She claims that development can be traced since we have not only letters from Paul himself, but also the Pastoral epistles from the beginning of the second century, as well as Ephesians and Colossians, writings which are characteristic of the ambiguous period following the disappearance of the earliest authorities. This is the first substantial examination of the Pauline corpus from this angle; it also incorporates effectively insights from the social sciences
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Physical Description:1 online resource (x, 286 pages)
ISBN:9780511470455
DOI:10.1017/CBO9780511470455

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