Divine Guidance
Lessons for Today from the World of Early Christianity
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 20 March 2020
- ISBN 9780190055738
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages334 pages
- Size 163x239x33 mm
- Weight 578 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 10 illustrations 0
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Short description:
In recent years, religiously inspired individuals have perpetrated numerous acts of violence, while millions of other faithful live quiet and kindly lives. Both see their actions as guided by the divine. In order to address this puzzle, John A. Jillions turns to the first-century world of Corinth, where Jews, Gentiles, and early Christians intermixed and vigorously debated issues of divine guidance, delusion, and decision-making. This book draws on these ancient insights to offer an outline for the twenty-first century and suggest criteria for assessing guidance perceived as divine.
MoreLong description:
The twenty-first century opened with the religiously-inspired attacks of 9/11 and in the years since such attacks have become all too common. Over against the minority who carry out violence at God's direction, however, there are millions of believers around the world who live lives of anonymous kindness. They also see their actions as guided by the divine. How is divine guidance to be understood against the background of such diametrically opposed results? How to make sense of both Osama bin Laden and Mother Teresa?
In order to answer this question, John A. Jillions turns to the first-century world of Corinth, where Jews, Gentiles, and early Christians intermixed and vigorously debated the question of divine guidance. In this ancient melting pot, the ideas of writers and poets, philosophers, rabbis, prophets, and the apostle Paul confronted and complemented each other. These writers reveal a culture that reflected deeply upon the realities, ambiguities, and snares posed by questions of divine guidance. Jillions draws these insights together to offer an outline for the twenty-first century and suggest criteria for how to assess perceived divine guidance. Jillions opens a long-closed window in the history of ideas in order to shed valuable light on this timeless question.
This is an intriguing approach to understanding a complex epistle in the light of Paul's own convictions concerning his calling and the continuing presence of Christ and the Spirit in the emerging Christian community....a pioneering study.
Table of Contents:
Contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction: Divine Guidance in the 1st and 21st centuries
Part I. Divine Guidance Among Greeks and Romans: Corinth as a Case Study
1. Roman Corinth
2. The Archeology of Divine Guidance in Corinth
3. The Literature of Divine Guidance: Homer, Virgil and Horace
4. Other Roman Writers: Propertius, Ovid, Livy, Lucan and Petronius
5. The Stoic Philosopher Posidonius
6. Roman Philosophers: Lucretius, Cicero, Seneca, Pliny
7. Plutarch: Greco-Roman Bridge Between Rational and Mystical
Part II. Divine Guidance Among Jews
8. The Jewish Community
9. Philo
10. Josephus
11. The Dead Sea Scrolls, Pseudepigrapha, and ?Expansions of Scripture?
12. Rabbinic Sources
Part III. Paul
13. Neither Jew nor Greek: 1 Corinthians, Paul's Primer on Divine Guidance
Part IV. Reprise: Divine Guidance in the 1st and 21st Centuries
14. Divine Guidance: Continuing the Conversation into the Twenty-First Century
Notes
Bibliography
Index
