Matthew E. Gordley 
New Testament Christological Hymns [EPUB ebook] 
Exploring Texts, Contexts, and Significance

Ondersteuning

We know that the earliest Christians sang hymns. Paul encourages believers to sing ‘psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs.’ And at the dawn of the second century the Roman official Pliny names a feature of Christian worship as ‘singing alternately a hymn to Christ as to God.’ But are some of these early Christian hymns preserved for us in the New Testament? Are they right before our eyes?New Testament scholars have long debated whether early Christian hymns appear in the New Testament. And where some see preformed hymns and liturgical elements embossed on the page, others see patches of rhetorically elevated prose from the author's hand.Matthew Gordley now reopens this fascinating question. He begins with a new look at hymns in the Greco-Roman and Jewish world of the early church. Might the didactic hymns of those cultural currents set a new starting point for talking about hymnic texts in the New Testament? If so, how should we detect these hymns? How might they function in the New Testament? And what might they tell us about early Christian worship?An outstanding feature of texts such as Philippians 2:6-11, Colossians 1:15-20, and John 1:1-17 is their christological character. And if these are indeed hymns, we encounter the reality that within the crucible of worship the deepest and most searching texts of the New Testament arose.New Testament Christological Hymns reopens an important line of investigation that will serve a new generation of students of the New Testament.

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Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
1. Introduction
2. Cultural Matrices
3. The Philippian Hymn
4. The Colossian Hymn
5. The Prologue of the Gospel of John
6. A Wider Look: Other Hymnic Passages in the New Testament
7. Conclusion
Bibliography
Author Index
Subject Index
Scripture Index

Over de auteur

Matthew E. Gordley (Ph D, University of Notre Dame) is dean of the College of Learning and Innovation at Carlow University and previously taught at Regent University. He is the author of The Colossian Hymn in Context and Teaching through Song in Antiquity.

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Taal Engels ● Formaat EPUB ● Pagina’s 252 ● ISBN 9780830880027 ● Bestandsgrootte 1.0 MB ● Uitgeverij IVP Academic ● Stad Lisle ● Land US ● Gepubliceerd 2018 ● Downloadbare 24 maanden ● Valuta EUR ● ID 6558279 ● Kopieerbeveiliging Sociale DRM

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