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Good Works in 1 Peter - Negotiating Social Conflict and Christian Identity in the Greco-Roman World (Hardcover)
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Good Works in 1 Peter - Negotiating Social Conflict and Christian Identity in the Greco-Roman World (Hardcover)
Series: Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament, 337
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In scholarship on 1 Peter, most interpreters understand the
letter's call to "do good" as an admonition to behave in a manner
which was consistent with popular standards of conduct. As such,
many contend that the Petrine readers could expect their "good
works" to be favorably acknowledged by Greco-Roman society. This
fact is significant considering that good works are one of the
primary paraenetic themes in the epistle, providing the readers
with a strategic plan of response for the conflict in which they
are engaged. For many years, this consensus reading of good works
has shaped and directed investigations of the letter's social
strategy. Travis B. Williams' goal is to challenge the modern
consensus regarding the meaning and function of good works in 1
Peter in order to thereby provide a fresh reading of the letter's
social strategy. Drawing on recent insights from postcolonial
theory and social psychology the author demonstrates that the
exhortation to "do good" envisages a pattern of conduct which
stands opposed to popular values. The Petrine author appropriates
terminology that was commonly associated with wealth and social
privilege and reinscribes it with a new meaning in order to provide
his marginalized readers with an alternative vision of reality, one
in which the honor and approval so valued in society is finally
available to them. The good works theme thus articulates a
competing discourse which challenges dominant social structures and
the hegemonic ideology which underlies them.
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