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1-3 John (Hardcover)
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The Gospel of John has been examined from many different
perspectives, but a comprehensive treatment of the theme of worship
in this Gospel has not yet appeared. John Paul Heil offers a
contribution toward a remedy of this deficiency by analyzing the
entire Gospel of John from the perspective of its various
dimensions of worship. The aim is to illustrate that three
different but complementary dimensions of worship - confessional,
sacramental, and ethical - dominate this Gospel. Indeed, these
different types of worship represent the ways one expresses and
demonstrates the faith that includes having divine life eternal,
which is the stated purpose for writing the signs Jesus did in this
Gospel - "that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of
God, and that, believing, you may have life in his name" ( John
20:31).
The Gospel of Matthew encourages and inspires its audience to
practice the true, authentic, and holistic worship required for
believers in Jesus to live in the kingdom of Heaven. In accordance
with all that Jesus taught and exemplified regarding authentic
worship, believers are invited to complement their worship of God
by worshipping and praying to Jesus, who, as God's beloved Son,
represents 'God with us'. They are also invited to complement their
ritual worship - especially the Baptism and Eucharist - instituted
for them by Jesus, with an ethical worship that extends to others,
especially to disciples, children, and 'the least ones' with whom
Jesus identifies himself, the mercy God desires for a holistic
worship. Indeed, a compassionate mercy toward all is the
distinctive and noteworthy hallmark that characterizes the theme of
worship in the kingdom of Heaven, according to the Gospel of
Matthew.
In his commentary, John Paul Heil presents two new proposals
regarding Paul's letter to the Galatians. First, he demonstrates an
entirely new chiastic structure embracing the entire letter, based
on strict linguistic and textual criteria rather than on conceptual
or theological themes. This chiastic structure accords with the
view that Galatians was originally performed orally in a setting of
communal worship. Second, Heil offers a new proposal for a key
theme that runs throughout Galatians, as expressed by the subtitle
of this book - 'Worship for Life by Faith in the Crucified and
Risen Lord'. Here, 'worship' is considered to be a comprehensive
concept that includes liturgical, cultic, or ritual worship as well
as the moral behaviour that is to complement it as ethical worship
in accord with the biblical tradition. 'Life' refers both to the
present way of living as well as to future eternal life. 'Faith'
refers to the acceptance of divine grace available to the believer
because of the death and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ.
'1-3 John' treats the three letters of John as a unified epistolary
package. Taking a thorough and scholarly approach, John Paul Heil
proposes two important contributions to the study of 1-3 John.
First, he presents new comprehensive chiastic structures for each
of the three letters of John based on concrete linguistic evidence
in the text. These chiastic structures serve as the guide to a
better understanding of for whom John's epistles were meant, and
why they were written. Secondly, it treats these letters from the
point of view of their worship context and themes. Not only were
1-3 John intended to be performed orally as part of liturgical
worship, but together these three letters plead with their audience
to engage in a distinctive kind of ethical worship. The three
letters of John are most concerned with giving their audience the
experience of living eternally by the worship that consists of
loving God and one another.
The Letters of Paul as Rituals of Worship places the epistles of
Paul the Apostle in their original context as epistolary rituals of
worship. Paul is rightly considered a great missionary, evangelist,
teacher, preacher, and pastor; but people often ignore the fact
that his letters were written to be performed publicly in a
liturgical assembly. The letters frame the issues and problems that
Paul addresses through them within the context of public worship.
Heil analyses each of the thirteen letters attributed to Paul with
these considerations in mind, and offers an innovative new approach
that gives the reader a greater understanding of the original
purpose and meaning to Paul's letters. Using liturgical and
ritualistic language Paul worships through the letters themselves,
addressing the audience about theological concepts, particular
problems and pressing concerns. Understood in the biblical
tradition that dynamically combines liturgical and ethical worship,
Paul's letters transcend their immediate context and become
meaningful for the moral worship of everyday lives outside the
liturgical assembly. John Paul Heil is Professor of New Testament
at the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. He is the
author of 'Ephesians: Empowerment to Walk in Love for the Unity of
All in Christ' (2007). 'When Heil calls the thirteen letters of
Paul 'rituals of worship', he means that each is written as a
script to be performed for a community gathered for worship over
which Paul presides through the letter, thereby evoking and sharing
in the prayer of his audience. Heil also explores how the language
of the letters uses imagery from temple worship metaphorically, to
interpret Christian life itself as worship. Heil manages to provide
a fresh, pastoral reading of the Pauline corpus as a whole'. Dennis
Hamm, S.J., Department of Theology, Creighton University
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Romans (Paperback)
John Paul Heil
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Galatians (Paperback)
John Paul Heil
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Luke-Acts (Paperback)
John Paul Heil
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About the Contributor(s): John Paul Heil is Professor of New
Testament at the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC.
He is the author of The Letter of James: Worship To Live By (2012).
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1-3 John (Paperback)
John Paul Heil
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