Paul, Apostle of Weakness

Informationen zum Autor Abidan Paul Shah has his PhD in New Testament Textual Criticism and teaches New Testament and Greek at Carolina University, Winston Salem. Also, he has been serving as the senior pastor of Clearview Church in Henderson for over twenty-three years.David Alan Black has taught New Testament and Greek at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary for twenty-four years. He is the author/editor of numerous books including New Tesatment Textual Criticism, Rethinking New Testament Textual Criticism, The Pericope of the Adulteress in Contemporary Research, and Perspectives on the Ending of Mark. Klappentext In this practical book every occurrence of astheneia and its cognates in the Pauline Epistles is examined, both in its immediate context and in its relation to Pauline thought as a whole. The analysis begins, first, by examining both secular and Septuagintal Greek usages of astheneia as well as its usage in the non-Pauline New Testament writings. It then proceeds, secondly, by defining Paul's astheneia termini from letter to letter and context to context. All the passages in the Pauline literature where the words appear undergo a detailed exegetical examination. The Pauline weakness motif is then summarized, with the conclusion that the concept of weakness is foundational to Paul's anthropology, Christology, and ethics.

Klappentext

In this practical book every occurrence of astheneia and its cognates in the Pauline Epistles is examined, both in its immediate context and in its relation to Pauline thought as a whole. The analysis begins, first, by examining both secular and Septuagintal Greek usages of astheneia as well as its usage in the non-Pauline New Testament writings. It then proceeds, secondly, by defining Paul's astheneia termini from letter to letter and context to context. All the passages in the Pauline literature where the words appear undergo a detailed exegetical examination. The Pauline weakness motif is then summarized, with the conclusion that the concept of weakness is foundational to Paul's anthropology, Christology, and ethics.