Pauline theology : ministry and society /

Ellis, E. Earle

Pauline theology : ministry and society / E. Earle Ellis. - Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, �1997. - xv, 182 pages ; 22 cm

A revision and expansion of lectures delivered in the United States, England, South Africa, and Ciskei. Originally published: Grand Rapids, Mich. : W.B. Eerdmans Pub., �1989.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Ministry for the comming age -- Ministry as a manifestation of the Kingdom of God -- Ministry as an activity in the Body of Christ -- Ministry and the secular world -- The Spirit and the Gifts : The Spirit's new role -- Four functions of the Holy Spirit -- The Nature of the Gifts of the Spirit -- The Gifts and the Body of Christ -- The Gifts and the Fruit of the Spirit -- Paul and the Eschatological Woman : Ministry and Church order : Charism and office -- Ordered ministries in Paul's churches -- Church order in the Pastoral Epistles -- The Regulation of worship -- Implications for the Church today -- Pauline Christianity and the World Order : The Social place of the Church in the Roman world -- Paul's ministry and the Greco-Roman society.

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Bible.--Epistles of Paul--Theology.
Bible.--Epistles of Paul.


Church--Biblical teaching.
Sociology, Biblical.
Brieven van Paulus.
Church--Biblical teaching.
Sociology, Biblical.
Theology.

BS 2651 / .E53 1997