The Call to Holiness, Especially to Holiness and Love in Personal Relationships
Published Online: 24 MAR 2011
DOI: 10.1002/9781444390124.ch5
Copyright © 2011 Anthony C. Thiselton
Book Title
1 & 2 Thessalonians: Through the Centuries
Additional Information
How to Cite
Thiselton, A. C. (2010) The Call to Holiness, Especially to Holiness and Love in Personal Relationships, in 1 & 2 Thessalonians: Through the Centuries, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK. doi: 10.1002/9781444390124.ch5
Publication History
- Published Online: 24 MAR 2011
- Published Print: 13 DEC 2010
Book Series:
Book Series Editors:
- John Sawyer,
- Christopher Rowland,
- Judith Kovacs,
- David M. Gunn
ISBN Information
Print ISBN: 9781405196826
Online ISBN: 9781444390124
- Summary
- Chapter
Keywords:
- call to holiness, to holiness and love - in personal relationships;
- Paul, turning to exhortation - or to what is called paranesis;
- exhortation on ethics - Jewish synagogue homilies, synagogue sermons to God-fearers;
- Paul's allusion, to preaching and moral instruction - confirming that readers understand this;
- strongest arguments in favor of body - Paul, addressing whole Christian community, and the unmarried;
- Paul, concluding - that God will avenge the weak or oppressed, and Christians with brotherly love;
- Clement of Alexandria - quoting 1 Thess. 4:3–8, “For this is the will of God, even your sanctification”;
- Theodore of Mopsuestia, under the constraints of persecution - the readers remain “inviolable”;
- Romantic movement, and John Keats – holiness, akin to creative imagination and strivings of the heart;
- The Holy Spirit - “is a token that He has consecrated you to himself”
Summary
This chapter contains sections titled:
Introduction and Overview
The Patristic Era
The Medieval Period
The Reformation and Post-Reformation Periods
The Eighteenth Century
The Nineteenth Century