Salvation is often thought to be an all-or-nothing matter: you are either saved or damned. Heavenly Stories examines how some important thinkers in the ancient world, including Paul the Apostle, John of Patmos, Hermas, the Sethians, and the Valentinians, believed that salvation comes in degrees.
Salvation is often thought to be an all-or-nothing matter: you are either saved or damned. Heavenly Stories examines how some important thinkers in the ancient world, including Paul the Apostle, John of Patmos, Hermas, the Sethians, and the Valentinians, believed that salvation comes in degrees.
Introduction. Differing Salvations, Differing Ethics Part I. The Salvation of Jews and Gentiles: Higher and Lower Levels of Salvation in the Letters of the Apostle Paul and John of Patmos's Revelation Chapter 1. John's Heavenly City: The Book of Revelation and Jewish Narratives of Salvation Chapter 2. Paul's Olive Tree: Saving Gentiles as Gentiles and Jews as Jews in Christ Part II. Saints and Sinners in Early Christianity: Ethical Differences as Salvific Hierarchies in the Shepherd of Hermas and the Apocryphon of John Chapter 3. In Heaven as It Is on Earth: Ethical and Salvific Differences in the Shepherd of Hermas and the Apocryphon of John Chapter 4. Diagnosing Sin and Saving Sinners: Early Christian Ethical and Soteriological Problem-Solving Part III. The Threefold Division of Humanity: Identity, Soteriology, and Moral Responsibility in the Excerpts of Theodotus, the Tripartite Tractate , and Heracleon's Commentary on John Chapter 5. Mapping the Heavens: The Missionizing Ethics and Soteriology of Valentinians Chapter 6. The Threefold Division and Exegesis: Ethics in Heracleon's Commentary on John Conclusion. Moral Imagination and Ancient Christianity Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments
Introduction. Differing Salvations, Differing Ethics Part I. The Salvation of Jews and Gentiles: Higher and Lower Levels of Salvation in the Letters of the Apostle Paul and John of Patmos's Revelation Chapter 1. John's Heavenly City: The Book of Revelation and Jewish Narratives of Salvation Chapter 2. Paul's Olive Tree: Saving Gentiles as Gentiles and Jews as Jews in Christ Part II. Saints and Sinners in Early Christianity: Ethical Differences as Salvific Hierarchies in the Shepherd of Hermas and the Apocryphon of John Chapter 3. In Heaven as It Is on Earth: Ethical and Salvific Differences in the Shepherd of Hermas and the Apocryphon of John Chapter 4. Diagnosing Sin and Saving Sinners: Early Christian Ethical and Soteriological Problem-Solving Part III. The Threefold Division of Humanity: Identity, Soteriology, and Moral Responsibility in the Excerpts of Theodotus, the Tripartite Tractate , and Heracleon's Commentary on John Chapter 5. Mapping the Heavens: The Missionizing Ethics and Soteriology of Valentinians Chapter 6. The Threefold Division and Exegesis: Ethics in Heracleon's Commentary on John Conclusion. Moral Imagination and Ancient Christianity Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments
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