The Significance of Salvation: A Study of Salvation Language in the Pastoral Epistles
Overview
The language and ideas of salvation pervade the three Pastoral Epistles. This study offers a close examination of their soteriological statements. In all three letters the idea of salvation is found to play a vital paraenetic role, but each also exhibits distinctive soteriological emphases. The results challenge common assumptions about the Pastoral Epistles as a corpus.
Top Highlights
“avoiding the negative characteristics of anger and arguing” (Page 70)
“Given the potency of shame-honour systems in the first-century Mediterranean world, Bassler concludes that the author is constructing a new honour system, ‘to encourage bold proclamation of the gospel—in spite of the potentially ‘shameful’ consequences—among an honor-sensitive people.’” (Page 110)
“It is not unreasonable to read 1 Tim 2:9–15 against the general background of deceiving teachers to whom some women are especially vulnerable.” (Page 71)
“humbly recognising the danger of their being deceived, they should not take it upon themselves to teach.” (Page 70)
“The letter can be very largely understood as a response to a perceived threat.1” (Page 19)
- Title: The Significance of Salvation: A Study of Salvation Language in the Pastoral Epistles
- Author: George M. Wieland
- Publisher: Paternoster
- Publication Date: 2006
- Pages: 324