Endurance in Suffering - Hebrews 12:1 13 in Its Rhetorical, Religious, Philosophical Context

Klappentext Hebrews 12:1-13 portrays the suffering of its readers with two images: an athletic contest! and God's fatherly discipline. N. Clayton Croy places this important passage in the context of Jewish and Greco-Roman traditions. He argues that the idea of "training" unites the passage! which presents Jesus as the supreme athlete. It also supports a nonpunitive understanding of discipline! in which God's children undergo a positive process of education. These ideas combine to support a call in Hebrews to faithful endurance rather than repentance. Zusammenfassung This 1998 study explores an important passage of Hebrews! which uses the image of an athletic contest and God's fatherly discipline. N. Clayton Croy examines the idea of 'training' which unites the passage! and sets its conception of non-punitive discipline against the background of Jewish and Graeco-Roman traditions. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction, retrospect, and prospect; 2. Athletes and exemplars; 3. Punitive and non-punitive suffering; 4. Endurance in suffering: An interpretation of Hebrews 12:1-13; 5. Summary, conclusions, and theses.

Product details

• Authors: N. Clayton Croy, N.clayton Croy
• Assisted by: John Court (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.08.2005
• EAN: 9780521018913
• ISBN: 978-0-521-01891-3
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: Society for New Testament Stud
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity