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By analyzing Old and New Testament texts on fasting, Christian Fasting: Biblical and EvangelicalPerspectives reveals the social, cultural, and religious significance of this practice in the first-century Mediterranean world. It then compares the biblical representation of fasting with fasting in contemporary Evangelical literature and practice.

List of contents

Introduction
Chapter 1: An Anthropologist Reads the New Testament
Chapter 2: Fasting in the Old Testament and Ancient Mediterranean World Introduction
Chapter 3: Fasting in the New Testament: A Social-Scientific View of Fasting in the First-Century Mediterranean World
Chapter 4: Fasting in Evangelical Christianity
Chapter 5: Evangelicalism and the New Testament in Dialogue

About the author

By S.H. Mathews

Summary

By analyzing Old and New Testament texts on fasting, Christian Fasting: Biblical and Evangelical Perspectives reveals the social, cultural, and religious significance of this practice in the first-century Mediterranean world. It then compares the biblical representation of fasting with fasting in contemporary Evangelical literature and practice.

Product details

• Authors: S. H. Mathews, S.H. Mathews
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.04.2015
• EAN: 9781498507530
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-0753-0
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; RELIGION / Christianity / General, RELIGION / Biblical Studies / General, RELIGION / Christian Ministry / Pastoral Resources, Christianity, Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts, Religious social and pastoral thought and activity, Biblical Studies & Exegesis, Christian social thought & activity