Contagious holiness : Jesus' meals with sinners / Craig L. Blomberg. [print]

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Blomberg, Craig [Author]

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TextSeries: New studies in biblical theology (InterVarsity Press) ; 19.Publication details: Leicester, England : Apollos ; 2005.; Downers Grove, Illinois : InterVarsity Press, (c)2005.Description: 216 pages ; 22 cmContent type:

text

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unmediated

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volume

ISBN:

9780830826209
9781844740833

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LOC classification:

BS2545
BS2545.B653.C668 2005

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Contents:

The current debate -- Forming friendships but evading enemies -- Contagious impurity -- Jesus the consummate party animal? -- Pervasive purity -- The potential of contemporary Christian meals.

Subject: One of humanity's most basic and common practices--eating meals--was transformed by Jesus into an occasion of divine encounter. In sharing food and drink with his companions, he invited them to share in the grace of God. He revealed his redemptive mission while eating with sinners, repentant and unrepentant alike. Jesus' "table fellowship" with sinners in the Gospels has been widely agreed to be historically reliable. However, this consensus has recently been challenged, for example, by the claim that the meals in which Jesus participated took the form of Greco-Roman symposia--or that the "sinners" involved were the most flagrantly wicked within Israel's society, not merely the ritually impure or those who did not satisfy strict Pharisaic standards of holiness. In this study, Craig L. Blomberg engages with the debate and opens up the significance of the topic. He surveys meals in the Old Testament and the intertestamental period, examines all the Gospel texts relevant to Jesus' eating with sinners, and concludes with contemporary applications.

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The current debate -- Forming friendships but evading enemies -- Contagious impurity -- Jesus the consummate party animal? -- Pervasive purity -- The potential of contemporary Christian meals.

One of humanity's most basic and common practices--eating meals--was transformed by Jesus into an occasion of divine encounter. In sharing food and drink with his companions, he invited them to share in the grace of God. He revealed his redemptive mission while eating with sinners, repentant and unrepentant alike. Jesus' "table fellowship" with sinners in the Gospels has been widely agreed to be historically reliable. However, this consensus has recently been challenged, for example, by the claim that the meals in which Jesus participated took the form of Greco-Roman symposia--or that the "sinners" involved were the most flagrantly wicked within Israel's society, not merely the ritually impure or those who did not satisfy strict Pharisaic standards of holiness. In this study, Craig L. Blomberg engages with the debate and opens up the significance of the topic. He surveys meals in the Old Testament and the intertestamental period, examines all the Gospel texts relevant to Jesus' eating with sinners, and concludes with contemporary applications.

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