F. Gerald Downing explores the teachings of Paul, arguing that the development of Paul's preaching and of the Pauline Church owed a great deal to the views of the vagabond Cynic philosophers, critics of the Gods and of the ethos of civic society.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1: A Cynic Preparation for Paul's Gospel for Jew and Greek, Slave and Free, Male and Female 1; 2: Scholarly Perceptions of Cynics, and of Cynics and Early Christians; and Our Sources; 3: Why then the Law?; 4: Already the Sceptre and the Kingdom; 5: Troubles Invited, Troubles Withstood; 6: Paul the Teacher and Pastor; 7: One God, One Lord 1; 8: Paul, an 'Anomalous' Jew 1; 9: Stoic And Epicurean Strands; 10: Paul and Other Early Christians, and their Traditions of Jesus; and Jesus; 11: Conclusions
