Atonement and Ethics in 1 John: A Peacemaking Hermeneutic

Armitage, Chris

Atonement and Ethics in 1 John: A Peacemaking Hermeneutic - London T&T Clark 2023 - 225p - Library of New Testament Studies - 654 .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Some peacemaking hermeneutical approaches to 1 John -- The background, purpose, literary structure and reception of 1 John -- I(lasmo/j and its cognates in the Septuagint, the intertestamental literature and the Dead Sea Scrolls -- I(lasmo/j in 1 John -- Sfa/zw and a)nqrwpokto/noj in 1 John -- )Agapa/w and a)delfo/j in 1 John -- Peacemaking in 1 John.

"Christopher Armitage considers previous theological perception of 1 John as a text advocating that God abhors violence, contrasted with biblical scholarship analysis that focuses upon the text's birth from hostile theological conflict between 'insiders' and 'outsiders', with immensely hostile rhetoric directed towards 'antichrists' and those who have left the community"--

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Bible.--Epistle of John, 1st--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bible.--Epistle of John, 1st--Criticism, Textual.


Atonement--Biblical teaching.
Reconciliation--Biblical teaching.
Ethics in the Bible.
Rhetoric in the Bible.

B70.1 / J826

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