Paul's Idea of Community

by Banks, Robert

• ISBN13: 9781565630505
• ISBN10: 1565630505
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-09-01
• Publisher: Hendrickson Pub

Summary

Robert Bank's widely read "Paul's Idea of Community: The Early House Churches in their Cultural Setting" is once again available to laypeole, pastors and scholars alike. In this extensively revised edition Banks has rewritten chapters for clarity, taken into account recent scholarship on Paul's writings, updated and expanded the bibliography, and added an index. This new edition retains, however, all the freshness and vitality of the original.

"The book draws fully upon the wealth of recent scholarly analysis of the New Testament churches, but in such a skilled way that the picture is not buried in learning, but brought to life for present-day readers. . . . People will be startled to find how much of modern church life has departed form the New Testament spirit. And yet the modern communities still possess in the New Testament, as illuminated through a book like this, the sources from which church life can be reawakened to the community consequences of accepting the Pauline gospel."
" Edwin A. Judge, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia

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Table of Contents

Abbreviations	vii
Preface to the Original Edition	ix
A Note on the Second Edition	xiii
Introduction	1	(3)
The Social and Religious Setting	4	(11)
The Arrival of Radical Freedom	15	(11)
Church as Household Gathering	26	(11)
Church as Heavenly Reality	37	(10)
The Community as a Loving Family	47	(11)
The Community as a Functional Body	58	(9)
Intellectual Elements in Growth	67	(10)
Physical Expressions of Fellowship	77	(11)
Gifts and Ministry	88	(11)
Charisma and Order	99	(10)
Unity in Diversity among the Members	109	(9)
The Contribution of Women in Church	118	(9)
Participation and Its Responsibilities	127	(12)
Service and Its Recognition	139	(10)
Paul and His Co-Workers	149	(10)
The Mission and the Churches	159	(11)
The Nature of Paul's Authority	170	(10)
The Exercise of Paul's Authority	180	(9)
Conclusion	189	(4)
Appendix: The Drift of the Pastorals	193	(8)
Bibliography	201	(12)
Glossary	213	(6)
Index of Ancient Sources	219