Entscheidende Situationen - entscheidende Kriterien. Fallbeispiele aus neutestamentlicher Zeit als Orientierungshilfen für die Gegenwart

The article investigates how New Testament authors used to manage conflicts and shows what criteria guided them. To this end, four situations of conflict in Early Christian communities are showcased. These are: Paul’s struggle for a universal horizon of Christianity leaving behind Jewish Law; the lo...

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Main Author: Martin Stowasser
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: ArgeAss 2015-06-01
Series:Protokolle zur Bibel
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Online Access:https://www.protokollezurbibel.at/index.php/pzb/article/view/2693
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Summary:The article investigates how New Testament authors used to manage conflicts and shows what criteria guided them. To this end, four situations of conflict in Early Christian communities are showcased. These are: Paul’s struggle for a universal horizon of Christianity leaving behind Jewish Law; the loss of plausibility in 2 Peter of the parousia of Jesus Christ;  the process of enculturation traced in 1 Peter; and the conflict between orthodoxy and orthopraxis in 1 Cor regarding the private consumation of meat sacrificed in pagan temples.
ISSN:2412-2467