Contents

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction. Differing Salvations, Differing Ethics 1
4. PART I. THE SALVATION OF JEWS AND GENTILES: HIGHER AND LOWER LEVELS OF SALVATION IN THE LETTERS OF THE APOSTLE PAUL AND JOHN OF PATMOS’S REVELATION
5. Chapter 1. John’s Heavenly City: The Book of Revelation and Jewish Narratives of Salvation 19
6. Chapter 2. Paul’s Olive Tree: Saving Gentiles as Gentiles and Jews as Jews in Christ 44
7. PART II. SAINTS AND SINNERS IN EARLY CHRIS TIAN ITY: ETHICAL DIFFERENCES AS SALVIFIC HIERARCHIES IN THE SHEPHERD OF HERMAS AND THE APOCRYPHON OF JOHN
8. Chapter 3. In Heaven as It Is on Earth: Ethical and Salvific Differences in the Shepherd of Hermas and the Apocryphon of John 67
9. Chapter 4. Diagnosing Sin and Saving Sinners: Early Christian Ethical and Soteriological Problem- Solving 92
10. PART III. THE THREEFOLD DIVISION OF HUMANITY: IDENTITY, SOTERIOLOGY, AND MORAL RESPONSIBILITY IN THE EXCERPTS OF THEODOTUS, THE TRIPARTITE TRACTATE, AND HERACLEON’S COMMENTARY ON JOHN
11. Chapter 5. Mapping the Heavens: The Missionizing Ethics and Soteriology of Valentinians 113
12. Chapter 6. The Threefold Division and Exegesis: Ethics in Heracleon’s Commentary on John 142
13. Conclusion. Moral Imagination and Ancient Chris tian ity 163
14. Notes 171
15. Bibliography 233
16. Index 253
17. Acknowl edgments 261