Divine Guidance : Lessons for Today from the World of Early Christianity

Jillions, John A.

Oxford University Press Inc（2020/03発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 334 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780190055738
• DDC分類 248.4

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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.

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