A case for mixed-audience with reference to the warning passages in the book of Hebrews
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New York :
Peter Lang,
c2008.
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| Online Access: | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10516867 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Significance of the warning passages
- Statement of the problem
- Purpose of the study
- Need for the study
- Contribution of the study
- Limitations of the study
- Approach of the study
- A historical survey of the interpretation of the warning passages
- A history of their interpretation
- Leading up to the Reformation
- The Apostolic period
- The sub-Apostolic period
- A.D. 150-300
- The influence of Hermas
- Montanists' reaction
- Clement of Alexandria (A.D. 140/150-220)
- Origen (A.D. 185-254)
- The Novatians
- A.D. 300-1500
- Rejection of rigorism
- Chrysostom (A.D. 349-407)
- Ambrose (A.D. 333/334-397)
- Augustine (c. A.D. 354-430)
- The monastics
- From the Reformation to the present
- Luther (1483-1546)
- Calvin (1509-1564)
- William Perkins (1558-1602)
- Jacobus Arminius (1555-1609)
- John Owen (1616-1683)
- Excursus : on the influence of Dort
- Since Owen
- Statement and critique of the five major views
- The hypothetical loss-of-salvation view
- Statement of the view
- Critique of the view
- The loss-of-rewards view
- Statement of the view
- Critique of the view
- The means-of-salvation view
- Statement of the view
- Critique of the view
- The loss-of-salvation view
- Statement of the view
- Critique of the view
- The test-of-genuineness view
- Statement of the view
- Critique of the view
- The nature of the danger threatening the community of Hebrews
- The problem with the community addressed
- The historical circumstances of the readers
- Ethno-religious background
- Socio-political circumstance
- Geographic location of the readers
- Occasion of the letter
- Purpose of the letter
- Genre of the letter
- The spiritual condition of the readers.