1 Peter (Hermeneia | Herm)

by Paul Achtemeier

Publisher:

Fortress Press

, 1996

Overview

This commentary, the fruit of years of research, is a gold-mine for clergy and an indispensable resource for students and scholars. Paul J. Achtemeier brings to this text his characteristic mastery of scholarship, theological insight and balanced judgment.

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Key Features

• Includes a number of valuable insights
• Presents a detailed and authoritative interpretation
• Provides a fantastic commentary for students, teachers, scholars, and professors

Contents

Top Highlights

“Thus the opposition the Christians face from their non-Christian contemporaries is not something they can avoid by modifying their behavior or adapting their beliefs in such a way as to escape such opposition.⁸⁰ Only by completely abandoning the gospel and the community shaped by it, only by submitting to the satanic forces that stand in total opposition to God, can they escape the persecutions they otherwise face.” (Page 341)

“Here, however, the force seems to be not so much that Christians are exiles from heaven—the author awaits not a return to heaven but the glorious return of Christ after a final judgment³⁹—as it is an acknowledgment of the kind of conditions the Christians must endure if they are to participate in that glorious future.” (Page 175)

“The status the phrase describes, however, painful though it may be, is nevertheless the necessary status of those who are estranged from the values and customs of the culture within which they were formerly at home.” (Page 175)

“Because the words do describe the actual social situation of Christians, it is less appropriate here to understand the terms as though they referred to exile from the true home of the Christians, which was heaven.” (Page 175)

“One is to entrust one’s life to God, even in the midst of suffering and persecution, subordinating oneself to the divine will, even when that will involves suffering at the hands of one’s non-Christian contemporaries, because God’s loving care is assured, and therefore the hope of vindication and exaltation at the end is sure. The fate of Christ—suffering, crucified, exalted—is thus both the pattern of activity and the ground of the Christians’ faith and hope,⁵⁹ and for that reason Christians may accept their humiliation by secular forces in the sure knowledge that it represents neither their rejection by God nor their final fate at God’s hands.” (Page 340)

Product Details

• Title: 1 Peter: A Commentary on First Peter
• Author: Paul Achtemeier
• Series: Hermeneia
• Publisher: Fortress Press
• Print Publication Date: 1996
• Logos Release Date: 2006
• Pages: 464
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Bible › Commentaries--Collected works; Bible. N.T. 1 Peter › Commentaries
• Resource ID: LLS:HRMNEIA81PE1
• Resource Type: Bible Commentary
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-25T20:01:34Z

About Paul Achtemeier

Paul Achtemeier is Professor Emeritus of Biblical Interpretation at Union Theological Seminary and Presbyterian School of Christian Education in Richmond, Virginia.