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Using both ancient and modern rhetoric, linguistics, and
argumentation theory, this study offers a fresh approach to 1 Peter
and New Testament ethics. It is often claimed that the growing
interest in paraenesis, or ethical teaching, among early Christians
indicates how Jesus' revolutionary teaching and the Pauline notion
of justification by faith were gradually replaced by an emphasis on
good works and ethics borrowed from the surrounding Hellenistic and
Jewish culture. The Motivation of the Paraenesis challenges this
traditional view of ethics in early Christianity, arguing that
paraenesis was an original, essential part of early Christian
doctrine and life. The book also provides a new, well-balanced
picture of 1 Peter and its message, giving a natural interpretation
to many puzzling sections and clarifying the internal logic of the
text and the theology behind it.>
For far too long, Lauri Thuren argues, the parables of Jesus have
been read either as allegories encoding Christian theology -
including the theological message of one or another Gospel writer -
or as tantalizing clues to the authentic voice of Jesus. Thuren
proposes instead to read the parables "unplugged" from any
assumption beyond those given in the narrative situation in the
text, on the common-sense premise that the very form of the parable
works to propose a (sometimes startling) resolution to a particular
problem. Thuren applies his method to the parables in Luke with
some surprising results involving the Evangelist's overall
narrative purposes and the discrete purposes of individual parables
in supporting the authority of Jesus, proclaiming God's love,
exhorting steadfastness, and so on. Eschatological and allegorical
readings are equally unlikely, according to Thuren's results. This
study is sure to spark learned discussion among scholars,
preachers, and students for years to come.
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