Heavenly Stories Tiered Salvation in the New Testament and Ancient Christianity
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.
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| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
University of Pennsylvania Press
2021, ©2021
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| Series: | Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion
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| Collection: | DeGruyter MPG Collection - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- 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 CHRIS TIAN ITY: 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 Christian ity
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments