
- 202 pages
- English
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About this book
Virtue amidst Vice represents an attempt to probe a relatively obscure portion of a relatively obscure New Testament document. 2 Peter reflects a social setting that presents a most daunting pastoral challenge. The danger confronting the Christian community is a lapse in ethical standards and a return-whether by mere forgetfulness or in wholesale apostasy-to the former way of life. 2 Peter's prophetic and paraenetic response borrows from the moral grammar of contemporary moral philosophers in exhorting the readers to recall-and validate through virtuous living-the faith they have received. The theme of the moral life runs throughout 2 Peter, with the various components of the author's literary arsenal subordinated to this thematic development. It is the function of the catalogue of virtues (1.5-7) both to introduce and to anchor the author's call to repel moral scepticism and reinvigorate the moral life.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Editorial Board
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Chapter 1 2 PETER COMMENTARY: AN APPRAISAL
- Chapter 2 LITERARY STRATEGY IN 2 PETER
- Chapter 3 ETHICS AND VIRTUE IN 2 PETER
- Chapter 4 THE MORAL WORLD OF GRECO-ROMAN PAGANISM
- Chapter 5 THE ETHICAL CATALOG AS A PEDAGOGICAL DEVICE
- Chapter 6 THE CATALOG OF VIRTUES IN 2 PETER 1.5-7
- Chapter 7 CONCLUSION: THE FUNCTION OF THE CATALOG OF VIRTUES IN 2 PETER 1.5-7
- Appendix PREDESTINATION, PERSEVERNCE AND THE PROBLEM OF APOSTASY
- Bibliography
- Index of References
- Index of Authors