The People Called: The Growth of Community in the Bible - Softcover

Hanson, Paul D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0664224458 ISBN 13: 9780664224455

Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press, 2002

Synopsis

In this unique work, Paul Hanson traces the concept of "community" from its early biblical origins through the end of the apostolic age. This edition includes a chapter devoted to the contemporary implications of this concept and in his new introduction, the author further explores the importance of this theme.

About this title

About the Author:

Paul D. Hanson is Florence Corliss Lamont Research Professor of Divinity at Harvard Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he has taught since 1971.

Review:

'Paul Hanson has taken on this prodigious job and not only succeeded marvellously, he has done well something few have even dared assay... Hanson [traces] the basic concept of 'community' from its earliest biblical origins through... to the end of the apostolic age. 'Community' is a key and critical category in all theology today. No previous book I know has ever... presented so well what the whole Bible teaches us about it.' Harvey Cox, Harvard Divinity School and author of The Secular City

About this edition

• Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0664224458
• ISBN 13: 9780664224455
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 588