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The Son of God in the Roman World - Divine Sonship in its Social and Political Context (Paperback)
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The Son of God in the Roman World - Divine Sonship in its Social and Political Context (Paperback)
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Michael Peppard examines the social and political meaning of divine
sonship in the Roman Empire. He begins by analyzing the conceptual
framework within which the term ''son of God'' has traditionally
been considered in biblical scholarship. Then, through engagement
with recent scholarship in Roman history - including studies of
family relationships, imperial ideology, and emperor worship - he
offers new ways of interpreting the Christian theological metaphors
of ''begotten''and ''adoptive'' sonship. Peppard focuses on social
practices and political ideology, revealing that scholarship on
divine sonship has been especially hampered by mistaken assumptions
about adopted sons. He invites fresh readings of several early
Christian texts, from the first Gospel to writings of the fourth
century. By re-interpreting several ancient phenomena -
particularly divine status, adoption, and baptism - he offers an
imaginative refiguring of the Son of God in the Roman world.
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