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Angels and Principalities: The Background, Meaning and Development of the Pauline Phrase hai archai kai hai exousiai: 42 (Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series, Series Number 42) - Softcover

Book 74 of 154: Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series

Carr, A. Wesley

 
9780521018753: Angels and Principalities: The Background, Meaning and Development of the Pauline Phrase hai archai kai hai exousiai: 42 (Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series, Series Number 42)

Synopsis

Refutes the notion that early Christians believed that mighty forces of evil were ranged against man.

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St Paul and his contemporaries - so runs a commonly accepted scholarly opinion - inhabited a world believed to be dominated by hostile superhuman powers, of whom Jews and Gentiles alike liked in fear. Dr Carr concludes that the notion of mighty forces of evil ranged against man was not part of the earliest Christian understanding of the world and the gospel.

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