Spiritual Transformation in the New Testament and Related Literature

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Albert L. A. Hogeterp — Spiritual Transformation in Early Christianity and Beyond: Revisiting Paradigms and Perspectives
I. Ancient Jewish and Graeco-Roman Contexts
	Moritz F. Adam — Participation, Tradition, and Transformation: On the Ethics and Hermeneutics of Engaging in Jewish Wisdom Thinking and Practice
	Jörg Frey — The Transformation of the Spiritual Self in Selected Qumran Texts
	Johan C. Thom — Spiritual Transformation in Graeco-Roman Philosophy
II. Gospels
	George Branch-Trevathan Pierre Hadot’s Spiritual Exercises and Matthew 5–7
	Heidrun E. Mader — The Ambivalence of Spiritual Transformation in Mark
	Albert L. A. Hogeterp — Spiritual Transformation on the Road to Emmaus (Luke 24:13–35)
	Michael Labahn — Becoming “New” in God’s Kingdom: Spiritual Transformation Through Beatitude in Jesus’ Proclamation of God’s Coming Kingdom –A Speech-Act Reading of Matt 5:2–12 / Luke 6:20–21
	Christos Karakolis — The Transformative Power of Love in the Gospel of John : A Narrative-Critical Perspective Based on Neuroscientific Insights about Human Behavior
III. Epistles
	Stephan Joubert — Reflecting the Glory of the Δόξα-Bodied Christ while Participating in the Suffering of theᾺσθένεια-Bodied Jesus: Paul’s Building Blocks for Spiritual Formation in 2 Corinthians
	D. F. Tolmie — Birth-pains and the Formation of Christ : On Spiritual Transformation According to Galatians 4:19
	R. Alan Culpepper — “Mending the Saints for Ministry”? Ephesians 4:12
	Jan G. van der Watt — Spirituality in Colossians
	Cornelis Bennema — Spiritual Transformation in 1 Thessalonians
	Peter Lampe — Spiritual Transformation Mirrored in Paul’s Letter to Philemon
	Kasper Bro Larsen — How to Tell an Insider from an Outsider: Material Aspects of Spiritual Identity in 1 John
IV. Other Early Christian Literature
	Matthijs den Dulk — Transformed into the Image of God: Origen, Paul, and the Restoration of the Imago Dei
	Jonathan E. Soyars — Transformative Spiritual askesis in the Mandates of the Shepherd of Hermas
	Johanna Brankaer — Clement of Alexandria’s Work of Spiritual Transformation
List of Contributors
Index of Ancient Sources
Index of Modern Authors
Index of Subjects