Keep Yourselves From Idols: A New Look at 1 John

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A&C Black, 15.11.2002 - 247 Seiten
Challenging gnositicizing interpretations of the letter, Terry Griffith explores how the polemic against idols was variously used in Jewish and Christian circles to define self-identity and the limits of community. He shows that the rhetoric of 1 John is not polemical, but pastoral, directed at confirming Johannine Christians in their fundamental confession of faith and preventing further defections of Jewish Christians back to Judaism. Griffith argues that the christological focus in 1 John concerns the identification of Jesus as the Messiah, and that the ending of the letter both contributes to the author's overall pastoral strategy and sheds light on the issues of sin and christology that are raised in this letter.
 

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Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION
1
Chapter 2 SURVEY OF INTERPRETATIONS OF 1 JOHN 521
12
Chapter 3 THE MEANING AND BACKGROUND OF THE TERM EIDOLON
28
Chapter 4 THE FORM OF THE ENDING OF 1 JOHN
58
Chapter 5 CLOSURE IN 1 JOHN
82
Chapter 6 ASSURANCE AND DUALISM
90
Chapter 7 SIN AND APOSTASY
109
Chapter 8 CHRISTOLOGY AND COMMUNITY
149
Chapter 9 THE FUNCTION OF THE ENDING
192
Bibliography
213
Index of References
226
Index of Authors
244
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Terry Griffith is currently Pastor of Trinity Baptist Church, Bexleyheath, Kent.

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