Endurance in Suffering

List of contents

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: N. Clayton Croy
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.01.2013
• EAN: 9780521593052
• ISBN: 978-0-521-59305-2
• No. of pages: 262
• Dimensions: 145 mm x 222 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 505 g
• Series: Society for New Testament Stud; Society for New Testament Stud
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works