Argument and Theology in 1 Peter: The Origins of Christian Paraenesis
Overview
Using both ancient and modern rhetoric, linguistics, and argumentation theory, this study offers a fresh approach to 1 Peter and New Testament ethics. It is often claimed that the growing interest in paraenesis, or ethical teaching, among early Christians indicates how Jesus’ revolutionary teaching and the Pauline notion of justification by faith were gradually replaced by an emphasis on good works and ethics borrowed from the surrounding Hellenistic and Jewish culture. The motivation of the paraenesis challenges this traditional view of ethics in early Christianity, arguing that paraenesis was an original, essential part of early Christian doctrine and life. The book also provides a new, well-balanced picture of 1 Peter and its message, giving a natural interpretation to many puzzling sections and clarifying the internal logic of the text and the theology behind it.
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- Offers a fresh approach to 1 Peter and New Testament ethics
- Argues that paraenesis was an original part of early Christian doctrine and life
- Provides a new, well-balanced picture of 1 Peter and its message
- The Problem: Early Christian Paraenesis and 1 Peter
- The Approach: On Studying the Structure of Argumentation and Persuasion
- Identifying the Motivating Expressions
- The Rhetorical Situation and Strategy
- The Structure of Argumentation
- The Classification of Topoi and Tactics
- The General Ideological Structure
Top Highlights
“length and importance, Christology has no dominant position in the many-sided motivation” (Page 207)
“This book attempts to explain how the paraenesis is motivated in 1 Peter. An ideological analysis of this rhetorical text will be executed with a specific technique. By identifying the motivating expressions, and analysing their function in their argumentative context, and by comparing the roles which different themes play in the structures of argumentation in the whole Letter, I seek to reconstruct an ideological structure beyond the text and its particular situation, and thereby reach a sound and cogent picture of the author’s thinking as it can be observed here. Such a view then provides us with a basis for wider inferences about the nature of the Early Christian paraenesis and ethics.” (Page 13)
“In the paraenesis the commands seem to be rather conventional. Thus, when seeking the specific nature of the paraenesis, the interest must be focused on the motivation. Several particular motivating themes have already been thoroughly discussed, but a proper synthesis is still lacking.” (Page 27)
“universal genre consisting of exhortation and admonition, aimed at affecting the audience’s attitudes and behaviour” (Page 18)
“First, in order to obtain a sound view of particular ideas in the text a holistic picture of the letter is required” (Page 28)
- Title: Argument and Theology in 1 Peter: The Origins of Christian Paraenesis
- Author: Lauri Thurén
- Publisher: Sheffield Academic Press
- Print Publication Date: 1995
- Logos Release Date: 2014
- Pages: 251
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Bible. N.T. 1 Peter › Criticism, interpretation, etc
- ISBNs: 1850755469, 9781850755463
- Resource ID: LLS:RGMNTTH1PTRRGNS
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-25T20:46:23Z