Written to Serve: The Use of Scripture in 1 Peter (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780567672452)

The use of Scripture in 1 Peter has been subject to much extensive analysis in the last thirty years. In Written to Serve Benjamin Sargent offers an up to date and comprehensive analysis of how 1 Pet 1.10-12 offers a 'hermeneutic, ' providing an insight into how Scripture is interpreted in the letter. Sargent also argues that the relation of 1.10-12 has been misunderstood. Rather than offering a Christological hermeneutic with a focus on the suffering and glories of Christ, Sargent asserts that the primary importance of 1.10-12 is its orientation of the prophetic witness towards the eschatological community as an act of service. Similarly, rather than offering a theological narrative of continuity between Israel and Christian communities, 1.10-12 may be seen to suggest a narrative of profound discontinuity in which the community in the present is elevated above God's people of the past.

Author: Benjamin Sargent
ISBN-10: 056767245X
ISBN-13: 9780567672452
Publisher: T&T Clark
Language: English
Published: 07/26/2018
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.74lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.50d