Bodily Resurrection and Ethics in 1 Cor 15 - Connecting Faith and Morality in the Context of Greco-Roman Mythology

New Testament scholars have long recognized a relationship between the future resurrection and ethics. Paul J. Brown contributes to this ongoing discussion by tracing Paul's logic for connecting the moral imperatives in 1 Cor 15 to the bodily resurrection. The author examines the afterlife belief system of the resurrection-deniers and proposes that their eschatology was informed by Greco-Roman mythology. This enabled the Corinthians to embrace the bodily resurrection of Jesus as a hero and reject the prospect of their own. Brown suggests that Paul strategically leveraged their Greco-Roman thinking in his discussion of the resurrection to argue that their in-Christ status made them partakers of the Messiah's beatific afterlife, and that the Greco-Roman practice of patron emulation should motivate them to live in imitation of the heavenly man.

Product details

• Authors: Paul J. Brown
• Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.02.2014
• EAN: 9783161530388
• ISBN: 978-3-16-153038-8
• No. of pages: 312
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 233 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 514 g
• Series: Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 2. Reihe; WUNT II