David Pao

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  Ascent Into Heaven In Luke To Acts (Student/Study Guide)

  $79.00

  Luke’s two-volume work contains the only narrative depictions of Jesus’ ascent into heaven in the New Testament. The significance of the event at the end of the Gospel and the beginning of Acts have long been recognized. While select studies have focused on particular aspects of these accounts, however, the importance of the ascension to Luke-Acts calls for renewed attention to the narratological and theological significance of these accounts. Here, leading scholars discuss the ancient, literary and theological contexts of the ascent-into-heaven accounts for the next generation of interpreters.

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  Thanksgiving : An Investigation Of A Pauline Theme

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  Series Preface
  Author’s Preface
  Abbreviations

  1. Thanksgiving As God-Centeredness
  2. Thanksgiving Within The Covental Traditions
  3. Thanksgiving And Covenantal History
  4. A Life Of Thanksgiving
  5. Thanksgiving And The Future
  6. Ingratitude

  Appendix: 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

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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 eschatology, and ethics.

  Here Pao provides clear insights into the passion of an apostle who never fails to insist on the significance of both the gospel message and the response this message demands.

  Addressing key issues in biblical theology, the works comprising New Studies in Biblical Theology are creative attempts to help Christians better understand their Bibles. The NSBT series is edited by D. A. Carson, aiming to simultaneously instruct and to edify, to interact with current scholarship and to point the way ahead.

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