Discipleship and Family Ties in Mark and Matthew
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- Author: Stephen C. Barton
- Date Published: August 2005
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- isbn: 9780521018821
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During the first two centuries CE there was a common awareness that familial tensions were generated by conversions to the Christian faith. Yet studies of Christian origins have so far paid little attention to the impact of the Christian movement upon attitudes to family ties and natural kinship. Stephen C. Barton remedies this deficiency by means of a detailed study of the relevant passages in the gospels of Mark and Matthew. First, however, he examines the religious traditions of Judaism and the philosophical traditions of the Greco-Roman world, and shows that the tensions apparent within the Christian movement were by no means unique. In all three areas of thought and religious belief there is found the conviction that familial obligations may be transcended by some higher responsibility, to God, to Christ, or to the demands of philosophy. Mark and Matthew saw the Jesus-movement as offering a transcendent allegiance, which relativised family ties.
Read more- Challenges the scholarly consensus that the Christian faith is conservative in its strong support of the conventional family ethos
- Author is one of the most exciting prospects among the younger generation of New Testament scholars
- This is an important topic which has received little attention in recent years, a lacuna Barton seeks to remedy
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- Date Published: August 2005
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521018821
- length: 276 pages
- dimensions: 217 x 140 x 16 mm
- weight: 0.367kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Preface
Abbreviations
1. Introduction
2. The subordination of family ties in Judaism and in the Greco-Roman world of the first century
3. Discipleship and family ties in Mark
4. Discipleship and family ties in Matthew
5. Conclusion
Bibliography
Index of passages
Index of authors.
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