TY - BOOK ID - 77901340 TI - Cynics, Paul, and the Pauline churches AU - Downing, F. Gerald AU - Downing, F Gerald PY - 1998 SN - 113469458X 1280336226 9786610336227 020320347X 9780203203477 9780415171595 0415171598 0415171598 9781280336225 6610336229 9781134694532 9781134694570 9781134694587 9780415642804 PB - London New York Routledge DB - UniCat KW - Cynics (Greek philosophy) KW - Pauline churches. KW - Pauline Christian communities KW - Church development, New KW - Church history KW - Cynic (Greek philosophy) KW - Cynicism (Greek philosophy) KW - Cynicism KW - Philosophy, Ancient KW - Bible. KW - Epistles of Paul KW - Paul, Epistles of KW - Paul Sŏsin KW - Pauline epistles KW - Risālat al-Qiddīs Būlus al-rasūl al-thāniyah ilá Tīmūthīʼūs KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77901340 AB - 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.F. Gerald Downing examines the New Testament writings of Paul, explaining how he would have been seen, heard, perceived and understood by his culturally and ethnically diverse converts and disciples. He engages in a lucid Pauline commentary and offers some startling and ground-breaking views of Paul and his Word.Cynics, Paul and the Pauline ER -