Artemis, Eve, and the Image of God: A Case of Mistaken Identity in Paul's Ephesian Marriage Code - Softcover

Brennan, Joseph A.

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798385212200

Verlag: Pickwick Publications, 2024

Inhaltsangabe

What has gone so terribly wrong in Ephesus that Paul feels compelled to write the longest marriage code in the New Testament? 1 Peter only has seven verses about marriage. Colossians only has two. Titus only has two. Why does Ephesians have thirteen? Did Paul wish to set in stone the nature of gender relationships for all of time? Was he trying to ensure the survival of the emerging church amidst harsh Hellenistic realities of hierarchic marriage? Or did he have something else in mind? This is a book about the Ephesians 5 marriage code, the goddess Artemis, Eve, and the image of God in the believer. It explores the adverse influence of Artemis upon the Ephesian believers’ thought world, why Paul raises up Eve and Adam as the example of loving marriage (5:31), what Paul thought the image of God looked like in the believer, and why some Ephesian believers thought differently. Dr Brennan argues that the primary purpose behind Ephesians 5:21–33 was to evangelize non-believing Ephesian onlookers to an ideal of marriage in Christ’s new kingdom that far surpassed their personal experience in the first-century Roman world, and that Artemis was getting in the way.

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Joseph A. Brennan is a lecturer in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at Mississippi State University and former assistant professor in the graduate school of counseling at Colorado Christian University.

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• Verlag: Pickwick Publications
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2024
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 13: 9798385212200
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224
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