Asceticism and the New Testament

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Acknowledgments......Page 10
List of Contributors......Page 12
Introduction......Page 14
Asceticism and the Gospel of Matthew......Page 24
Asceticism and Mark's Gospel......Page 42
Askesis and the Early Jesus Tradition......Page 62
Beloved Physician of the Soul? Luke as Advocate for Ascetic Practice......Page 84
~Full of Spirit and Wisdom~: Luke's Portrait of Stephen (Acts 6:1  8:1a) as a Man of Self-Mastery......Page 110
Children of the Resurrection: Perspectives on Angelic Asceticism in Luke-Acts......Page 128
Asceticism and the Gospel of John......Page 140
Making Sense of Difference: Asceticism, Gospel Literature, and the Jesus Tradition......Page 162
God's Will at Thessalonica and Greco-Roman Asceticism......Page 172
Disciplines of Difference: Asceticism and History in Paul......Page 184
Paul the Prisoner: Political Asceticism in the Letter to the Philippians......Page 200
The Letter to Philemon and Asceticism......Page 222
Competing Ascetic Subjectivities in the Letter to the Galatians......Page 224
Asceticism among the ~Weak~ and ~Strong~ in Romans 14  15......Page 244
2 Thessalonians and the Discipline of Work......Page 268
Citizens of Heaven and Earth: Asceticism and Social Integration in Colossians and Ephesians......Page 282
Askesis and Resistance in the Pastoral Letters......Page 312
Where Is ~This World~ Headed? Irony, World Renunciation, and the Pauline Corpus......Page 330
The Virtue of Suffering, the Necessity of Discipline, and the Pursuit of Perfection in Hebrews......Page 344
An Asceticism of Resistance in James......Page 368
Asceticism or Household Morality? 1 and 2 Peter and Jude......Page 384
Asceticism in the Johannine Letters?......Page 396
The Ascetic Way: Reflections on Peace, Justice, and Vengeance in the Apocalypse of John......Page 406
Imperial Asceticism: Discipline of Domination......Page 424
Epilogue: The New Testament and Asceticism......Page 434
Index......Page 440