Asceticism and the New Testament

Table of contents

• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• Acknowledgments ix
• Introduction 1
• Notes 7
• Part One - (all About) Jesus 9
• 1 - Asceticism and the Gospel of Matthew 11
• 2 - Asceticism and Mark’s Gospel 29
• Notes 46
• 3 - Askesis and the Early Jesus Tradition 49
• 4 - Beloved Physician of the Soul? Luke as Advocate for Ascetic Practice 71
• 5 - Full of Spirit and Wisdom: Luke's Portrait of Stephen (acts 6:1-8:1a) as a Man of Self-Mastery 97
• 6 - Children of the Resurrection: Perspectives on Angelic Asceticism in Luke-Acts 115
• 7 - Asceticism and the Gospel of John 127
• 8 - Making Sense of Difference: Asceticism, Gospel Literature, and the Jesus Tradition 149
• Part Two - Paul (the Real Thing) 157
• 9 - God’s Will at Thessalonica and Greco-Roman Asceticism 159
• 10 - Disciplines of Difference: Asceticism and History in Paul 171
• Notes 183
• 11 - Paul the Prisoner: Political Asceticism in the Letter to the Philippians 187
• 12 - The Letter to Philemon and Asceticism 209
• 13 - Competing Ascetic Subjectivities in the Letter to the Galatians 211
• 14 - Asceticism Among the “weak” and “strong” in Romans 14-15 231
• Part Three - Imitatio Pauli 253
• 15 - 2 Thessalonians and the Discipline of Work 255
• Notes 265
• 16 - Citizens of Heaven and Earth: Asceticism and Social Integration in Colossians and Ephesians 269
• Notes 292
• 17 - Askesis and Resistance in the Pastoral Letters 299
• 18 - Where is “this World” Headed? Irony, World Renunciation, and the Pauline Corpus 317
• Part Four - Un-Paul 329
• 19 - The Virtue of Suffering, the Necessity of Discipline, and the Pursuit of Perfection in Hebrews 331
• 20 - An Asceticism of Resistance in James 355
• 21 - Asceticism or Household Morality? 1 and 2 Peter and Jude 371
• 22 - Asceticism in the Johannine Letters? 383
• 23 - The Ascetic Way: Reflections on Peace, Justice, and Vengeance in the Apocalype of John 393
• 24 - Imperial Asceticism: Discipline of Domination 411
• Index 427

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