Thanksgiving An Investigation of a Pauline Theme

Name: Thanksgiving An Investigation of a Pauline Theme
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ISBN: 9780830826131

ISBN-10: 0830826130

ISBN-13: 9780830826131

Edition: 2002

Authors: David W. Pao, D. A. Carson

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"Be thankful" (Colossians 3:15) is a recurring exhortation in the letters of the apostle Paul. No other New Testament writer gives such a sustained emphasis on thanksgiving--and yet, major modern studies of Paul fail to wrestle with it.David Pao aims to rehabilitate this theme in this comprehensive and accessible study, a New Studies in Biblical Theology volume. He shows how, for Paul, thanksgiving is grounded in the covenantal traditions of salvation history. To offer thanks to God is to live a life of worship and to anticipate the future acts of God, all in submission to the lordship of Christ. Ingratitude to God is idolatry. Thanksgiving functions as a link between theology, including…

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List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Publication date: 10/31/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 212
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English



Series preface


Author's preface


Abbreviations



Thanksgiving as God-centredness


Source and traditions


Epistolary thanksgiving


A cross-cultural examination


To say 'Thanks'


Thanksgiving and worship


Thanksgiving as God-centredness



Thanksgiving within the covenantal traditions


God and his people


The past in covenantal traditions


The present in covenantal traditions


The future in covenantal traditions


Paul and the covenantal traditions


Thanksgiving and the covenantal traditions



Thanksgiving and covenantal history


Thanksgiving as remembrance


Remembrance as a covenantal act


Confessing the mighty acts of God


Climax of history


'Do this in remembrance of me'


The Pauline gospel


Divine acts through human agency


Grace and thanksgiving



A life of thanksgiving


To walk in him


Anti-idol polemic


Thanksgiving offering


In all circumstances


Redefinition of the structure of authority


Covenantal relationship



Thanksgiving and the future


Faithful and powerful God


Bridging the past and the future


Future as grounds for thanksgiving


In light of the future



Ingratitude


Rejection of the mighty acts of God


Forgetting their Lord and worshipping idols


'Do not grumble, as some of them did'


'They neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him'


'Lovers of themselves'



Pauline thanksgiving and the Greco-Roman benefaction system


The Greco-Roman patron-client network


Gratitude in the patron-client relationship


Pauline thanksgiving and the patronage model


Bibliography


Index of modern authors


Index of biblical references and ancient sources


Index of subjects