Sensitivity Towards Outsiders: Exploring the Dynamic Relationship Between Mission and Ethics in the New Testament and Early Christianity

From its very beginning, Christianity was an innovative movement which had to construct and maintain its identity, morality, and social as well as theological boundary markers as it developed from a religion of conversion into a religion of tradition. Early Christianity's sensitivity to "outsiders" evolved in various ways as circumstances and socio-cultural contexts changed. In this volume scholars from around the world reflect on the dynamic relationship between mission and ethos in the New Testament and Early Christianity, focusing particularly on the sensitivity, or lack thereof, to outsiders, and thereby offering new insights into old questions. Most of the New Testament and several second century books are individually studied by specialists in the field making this book a valuable reference volume on the topic.
Contributors:
Andries G. van Aarde, Jonathan Draper, John Dunne, Ernest van Eck, Paul Foster, Erhard Gerstenberger, Christopher M. Hays, Dirk J. Human, Stephan Joubert, Jacobus (Kobus) Kok, Andreas Köstenberger, Abraham Malherbe, Johann Meylahn, David Moffitt, Candida Moss, Tobias Nicklas, Nelus Niemandt, Heike Omerzu, Bert-Jan Lietaert Peerbolte, Jeremy Punt, Volker Rabens, Dieter Roth, Christopher Rowland, Herbert Schlögel, Gert Steyn, Andrie du Toit, Chris L. De Wet, Ruben Zimmermann

Geboren 1967; 2000 Promotion und 2004 Habilitation an der Universität Regensburg; Professor für Neues Testament an der Universität Regensburg; wiss. Mitarbeiter an der University of the Free State Bloemfontein.

Born 1983; is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at Keble College in Oxford.

Born 1978; is Associate Professor of New Testament Studies at the University of Pretoria.

Geboren 1975; 2009 Promotion an der University of Edinburgh; 2016 Habilitation an der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz; Associate Professor für Neues Testament am Boston College in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, USA.