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The Way, the Church, and paradise in early Christian thought: The Christian appropriation of way-language in the first and second centuries.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The Way, the Church, and paradise in early Christian thought: The Christian appropriation of way-language in the first and second centuries./
Author:	Graham, Christopher A.
Description:	258 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 75-07(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International75-07A(E).
Subject:	Theology. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3580227
ISBN:	9781303892998

The Way, the Church, and paradise in early Christian thought: The Christian appropriation of way-language in the first and second centuries.
Graham, Christopher A.

The Way, the Church, and paradise in early Christian thought: The Christian appropriation of way-language in the first and second centuries. - 258 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 75-07(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Dallas Theological Seminary, 2014.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

The claim of this dissertation is that within early Christianity there was a trajectory of interpretation in which way-language was employed as an allusion to humanity's expulsion from paradise (Gen 3:24) in order to signify the unique nature and role of the Church as the divinely constituted and ordained means by which God had maintained humanity's access to divine truth and life established through Jesus Christ.

ISBN: 9781303892998Subjects--Topical Terms:

516533
Theology.

The Way, the Church, and paradise in early Christian thought: The Christian appropriation of way-language in the first and second centuries.
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520 $a The claim of this dissertation is that within early Christianity there was a trajectory of interpretation in which way-language was employed as an allusion to humanity's expulsion from paradise (Gen 3:24) in order to signify the unique nature and role of the Church as the divinely constituted and ordained means by which God had maintained humanity's access to divine truth and life established through Jesus Christ.
520 $a The appellative use of way-language in Acts (e.g., Acts 9:2) has been the locus of contemporary scholarship. One contemporary approach has sought allusive targets and analogues primarily in paraenetic texts (e.g., 1QS 8, Didache) such that the appellative way-language is a metaphor for the Church's advocacy of an ethical "way of life." Another contemporary approach has sought to demonstrate that the appellative way-language fits within Luke's concern to show that the Church fulfills OT prophecy (e.g., Isa 40:3-5). Both of these approaches are based on a misconstrual of the her meneutical approaches and theological concerns of the early Christian milieu. Neither addresses the personalization of way-language.
520 $a Allusions to the expulsion narrative (Gen 3:22-24) are found in a wide range of texts circulating in the first two centuries of the Church. The expulsion narrative provided insight about the nature of protological paradise and offered hope for an eschatological return to paradise. Analyses of a wide range of texts circulating in the first two centuries of the Church legitimate the idea that early Christians employed way-language as an allusion to the Church's role and nature with respect to providing access to the divine fruit found only in paradise. The Irenaean corpus is especially helpful because it contains significant uses of way-language with a helpful amount of exposition to demonstrate the manner in which way-language was used in the second century as a reference to the Church.
520 $a With the hermeneutical and theological concerns of early Christians in view, it is possible to see that Luke has indeed portrayed the Church as the Way because of the messianic reentry into paradise accomplished by Jesus and the concurrent transformation of his disciples (Luke 23-24).
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