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Cynics, Paul and the Pauline Churches
F. Gerald Downing
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| #8617627 in Books | 2014-04-26 | 2014-04-28 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.50 x.87 x5.43l,.0 | File type: PDF | 384 pages||2 of 6 people found the following review helpful.| Interesting parallels, unconvincing arguments.|By David Marshall|In this book, Downing argues five points: (1) Paul would have sounded like a Cynic to people in the 1st Century. (Especially the early Paul -- later he sluffed off into a more respectable Stoicism.) (2) The similarities are so strong that Paul must have been aware of them. (3) Cynicism must have been part of wh||'Downing writes with an excitement which ... is itself persuasive. He also writes with a historian's sensitivity to the fragility of all evidence from so remote a date.' - C.J.A. Hickling, Journal of Theological Studies
F. Gerald Downing explores the teachings of Paul, arguing that the development of Paul's preaching and of the Pauline Church owed a great deal to the views of the vagabond Cynic philosophers, critics of the gods and of the ethos of civic society. F. Gerald Downing examines the New Testament writings of Paul, explaining how he would have been seen, heard, perceived and understood by his culturally and ethnically diverse converts and disciples. He engages in a lucid Pau...
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