The Son of God in the Roman World: Divine Sonship in its Social and Political Context. By Michael Peppard
In this fine debut monograph, Michael Peppard’s dual purpose is ‘to critique the conceptual framework within which the term “Son of God” has usually been construed in biblical scholarship’, and ‘to reinterpret divine sonship in the socio-political context of early Christianity’. He argues that moder...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2013
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2013, Volume: 64, Issue: 1, Pages: 216-218 |
| Review of: | The Son of God in the Roman world (Oxford [u.a.] : Oxford Univ. Press, 2011) (Morgan, Teresa)
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| Further subjects: | B
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| Summary: | In this fine debut monograph, Michael Peppard’s dual purpose is ‘to critique the conceptual framework within which the term “Son of God” has usually been construed in biblical scholarship’, and ‘to reinterpret divine sonship in the socio-political context of early Christianity’. He argues that modern scholarship has tended to see divine sonship in the New Testament through the lens of fourth-century philosophical theology, and proposes that it is better understood with reference to the idea of divine sonship—especially of emperors—in the early Roman principate, and more widely with reference to contemporary Roman legal theories and practices of adoption. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/fls153 |