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Zechariah 9-14 as the substructure of 1 Peter’s eschatological program
No full textThe principal aim of this study is to discern what has shaped the author of 1 Peter to regard Christian suffering as a necessary (1.6) and to-be-expected (4.12) component of faithful allegiance to Jesus Christ. Most research regarding suffering in 1 Peter has limited the scope of inquiry to two particular aspects—its cause and nature, and the strategies that the author of 1 Peter employs in order to enable his addressees to respond in faithfulness. There remains, however, the need for a comprehensive explanation for the source that has generated 1 Peter’s theology of Christian suffering. If Jesus truly is the Christ, God’s chosen redemptive agent who has come to restore God’s people, then how can it be that Christian suffering is a necessary part of discipleship after his coming, death and resurrection? What led the author of 1 Peter to such a startling conclusion, which seems to runs against the grain of the eschatological hopes and expectations of Jewish restoration ideology?
This thesis analyzes the appropriation of shepherd and fiery trials imagery,
and argues that the author of 1 Peter is dependent upon Zechariah 9-14 for his
theology of Christian suffering. Said in another way, the eschatological program of
Zechariah 9-14, read through the lens of the Gospel, functions as the substructure
for 1 Peter’s eschatology and thus its theology of Christian suffering.
In support of this hypothesis, this study highlights the fact that Zechariah 9-
14 was available and appropriated in early Christianity, in particular in the Passion
Narrative tradition; that the shepherd imagery of 1 Pet 2.25 is best understood
within the milieu of the Passion Narrative tradition, and that it alludes to the
eschatological program of Zechariah 9-14; that the fiery trials imagery found in 1
Peter 1.6-7 and 1 Pet 4.12 is distinct from that which we find in Greco-Roman and OT
wisdom sources, and that it shares exclusive parallels with some unique features of
the eschatological program of Zechariah 9-14; that Zechariah 9-14 offers a more
satisfying explanation for the modification of Isa 11.2 in 1 Pet 4.14, the transition
from 4.12-19 to 5.1-4, why Peter has oriented his letter with the term διασπορά,
and why he has described his addresses as οἶκος τοῦ θεοῦ; and finally that 1 Peter
contains an implicit foundational narrative that shares distinct parallels with the
eschatological program of Zechariah 9-14.
We can conclude that 1 Peter offers a unique vista into the way in which at
least one early Christian witness came to understand and to communicate the fact
that Christian suffering was a necessary feature of faithful allegiance to Jesus Christ
"This word is the gospel preached to you" : ecclesiology and the Isaianic narrative in 1 Peter
No full textThe appropriation of Isaiah in 1 Peter occurs through explicit quotations, but also by means of subtle allusions and echoes. I propose that the ecclesiology of 1 Peter draws upon the narrative of the restoration of divine presence among the people of God despite present suffering, which is informed largely by the themes and images of Isaiah, so that the church is identified as participants in a scriptural narrative through its participation in Christ, who is
understood to be the Messiah of the scriptures.
This study explores the relationship between 1 Peter and the scriptures it employs along
several lines. First, comparison is made with available textual evidence to determine differences between the texts in 1 Peter and their Vorlagen. This helps determine the extent to which texts have been modified, the cause of modification, and any interpretive uses such modifications may
have occurred. Second, individual texts used in 1 Peter are correlated with the larger narrative of scripture. It is argued that the terms suffering and glory express this narrative in the language of the epistle as a present conflict and future resolution. Third, Isaiah informs the ecclesiology of
the letter, in harmony with other scriptural texts, so that the church is viewed as participating in the scriptural narrative of the restoration of divine presence. Finally, the narrative drawn from scripture provides comfort and consolation to Christians suffering in Asia Minor by showing
how present suffering is consistent with the experiences of God’s people in ages past and with the experience of Christ. Furthermore, the hope of future glory entails the vindication of present calamities and the reward of honorable conduct.
I conclude by showing how the Isaianic narrative has been formative for Peter’s
understanding of the church. In his address to the churches of Asia Minor, he builds an
argument from his reading of the Isaianic narrative that 1) indicates how the scriptures of Israel are the basis of gospel proclamation and community formation, 2) proposes a high ethical standard in the midst of suffering based on the pattern of Christ, and 3) depicts the vindication
of the suffering church at the revelation of Christ
Critical pedagogy in hard financial times
No full textPeter Mayo takes issue with education financing not from an economic or technical
viewpoint, but from a philosophical and systemic one, drawing on critical pedagogy.
There is no sense, this article argues, to talk of higher education or its funding without
reference to the capitalist system which the mainstream education discourse reaffirms. The author concludes with an alternative vision of lifelong learning as a social act for the creation and enhancing of democratic spaces, reflected in the ongoing global “Occupy” protests for social equality.peer-reviewe
Review of "Fighting for the Higher Law: Black and White Transcendentalists against Slavery" by Peter Wirzbicki
No full textThis is a pre-copyedited, author-produced version of an article accepted for publication in American Literary History following peer review. The version of record Laura L Mielke, Peter Wirzbicki, Fighting for the Higher Law: Black and White Transcendentalists against Slavery, American Literary History, Volume 34, Issue 4, Winter 2022, Pages 1544–1547is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajac17
Defined contribution pension plans : can the real estate industry tap this growing pool of capital?
No full textThesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1997 [first author]; and, Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1996 [second author].Includes bibliographical references.by Robert L. Johnson, Jr. & Peter R. Shepard.M.S
Narrative support for technical documents: Formalising Rhetorical Structure Theory
No full textBusiness Process Re-engineering (BPR) is an area that requires a lot of technical documents and an important feature of a well-written document is a coherent narrative. Even though computer software has helped authors in many other aspects of writing, support for document narratives is almost non-existent. Therefore, we introduce CANS (Computer-Aided Narrative Support), a tool that uses Rhetorical Structure Theory to enhance the narrative of a document. From this narrative, the tool generates questions to prompt the author for the content of the document. CANS also allows the author to explore alternative narratives for a document. A catalogue of predefined narrative structures for popular types of documents is provided too. Our tool is still in its rudimentary stages but sufficiently complete to be demonstrated
Florida Historical Quarterly Podcast Episode 07: Fall 2010
No full textWe interviewed the three authors that contributed to this special issue, all of whom are graduate students finishing their Ph.D.s on Florida history topics. We asked the authors about their experiences researching a Florida topic while early in their scholarly careers. Our guests on this podcast were Deborah L. Bauer, author of “. . . in a strange place”: The Experiences of British Women during the Colonization of East & West Florida,” Nicole C. Cox, author of “Selling Seduction: Women and Feminine Nature in 1920s Florida,” and Peter Ferdinando, author of “A Translation History of Florida.”https://stars.library.ucf.edu/fhq-podcast/1006/thumbnail.jp
The Augmented Movement Platform For Embodied Learning (AMPEL): development and reliability
No full textThere was an error in the affiliations of the co-authors Dr. Thomas Vervust and Prof. Peter Feys. Their correct affiliations are given in this correctionMoumdjian, L (corresponding author),
.Univ Ghent, IPEM Inst Psychoacoust & Elect Mus, Fac Arts & Philosophy, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium.
UMSC Hasselt, Pelt, Belgium.
Hasselt Univ, Fac Rehabil Sci, REVAL Rehabil Res Ctr, B-3500 Hasselt, Belgium.
[email protected]
L-optimal transportation for Ricci flow
No full textWe introduce the notion of L-optimal transportation, and use it to construct a natural monotonic quantity for Ricci flow which includes a selection of other monotonicity results, including some key discoveries of Perelman [13] (both related to entropy and to L-length) and a recent result of McCann and the author [11]
La construcción social de la realidad: la posición de Peter L. Berger y Thomas Luckmann
No full textThe author exposes the thought of the authors Peter L.
BERGER and Thomas LUCKMANN, on the basis of the work La construcción
social de la realidad. For these authors, the reality is established
as consequence of a dialectical process between social relations,
typifi ed habits and social structures, looked from a social point of
view. The sense and character of this reality is understood and explained
by means of the knowledge. The author indicates and criticizes the defi nitions of the principal theses of the work of the sociologists in comment, and structures the work in two parts, in the fi rst one, treats about the society as objective reality, and in the second one, about the society as subjective reality.El autor expone el pensamiento de los autores Peter L.
BERGER y Thomas LUCKMANN, en base a la obra La construcción social
de la realidad. Para estos autores, la realidad se establece como
consecuencia de un proceso dialéctico entre relaciones sociales,
hábitos tipifi cados y estructuras sociales, mirado desde un punto de
vista social. El sentido y carácter de esta realidad es comprendido y
explicado por medio del conocimiento. El autor señala y critica las
defi niciones de las tesis principales de la obra de los sociólogos en
comento, y estructura el trabajo en dos partes, en la primera, trata
de la sociedad como realidad objetiva, y en la segunda, a la sociedad
como realidad subjetiva
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