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"Ich glaube... die Vergebung der Sünden": Studien zur Wahrnehmung der Vollmacht zur Sündenvergebung durch die Kirche Jesu Christi
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ISBN: 3525562993 9783525562994 Year: 1999 Volume: 92 Publisher: Göttingen Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht

Reward, punishment, and forgiveness : the thinking and beliefs of ancient Israel in the light of Greek and modern views
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ISSN: 00835889 ISBN: 9004114432 9004276033 9789004114432 Year: 1999 Volume: v. 78 Publisher: Leiden : E.J. Brill,

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This book deals with central and universal issues of reward, punishment and forgiveness for the first time in a compact and comprehensive way. Until now these themes have received far too little attention in scholarly research both in their own right and in their interrelationship. The scope of this study is to present them in relation to the foundations of our culture. These and related issues are treated primarily within the Hebrew Bible, using the methods of literary analysis. The centrality of these themes in all religions and all cultures has resulted, however, in a comparative investigation, drawing attention to the problem of terminology, the importance of Greek culture for the European tradition, and the fusion of Greek and Jewish-Christian cultures in our modern philosophical and theological systems. This broad perspective shows that the biblical personalist understanding of divine authority and of human righteousness or guilt provides the personalist key to the search for reconciliation in a divided world.

Der betende Sünder vor Gott : Studien zu Vergebungsvorstellungen in urchristlichen und frühjüdischen Texten
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ISBN: 9004112839 9004332413 9789004112834 Year: 1999 Volume: 45 Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill,

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This volume provides important new insights into the concept of 'forgiveness' in early Christian literature. In contrast to much of the existing literature on the notion of forgiveness, which usually focuses on the preconditions for being forgiven, the author sets out to describe the actual meanings and connotations of this concept during the period in which the New Testament was being formed. In early Christian texts the notion of forgiveness is expressed in a variety of ways. On the basis of detailed analysis of a number of early Christian and contemporary Jewish prayers the author uncovers an array of different shades of meaning, which often can be obscured in modern translations. In so doing he demonstrates the importance of this complex of meanings for early Christians, not only as part of their soteriology, but in their overall theological outlook as well.

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