By the Same Word: Creation and Salvation in Hellenistic Judaism and Early Christianity (2007 Cox), book

By the Same Word: Creation and Salvation in Hellenistic Judaism and Early Christianity (2007) is a book by Ronald R. Cox.

Editions and translations

Published in New York, NY: Walter de Gruyter, 2007 and in Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2007.

Table of contents

• 1. Introduction
  • 1. The Fusion of Creation Myth and Salvation History
  • 2. Identifying the Vorleben of the Christological Creation Myth
  • 3. One Cosmology, Three Soteriologies: A Study of the Appropriation of Middle Platonic Intermediary Doctrine by Hellenistic Sapientialis, Early Christianity, and Gnosticism
  • 4. Summary of Introduction
• 2. Middle Platonic Intermediary Doctrine
  • 1. A Transcendent Supreme Principle
  • 2. Demiurgic Activity and the Intermediate Principle
  • 3. Prepositional Metaphysics
  • 4. The Anagogic Function of the Intermediate Principle
  • 5. Summary of Chapter Two
• 3. Salvation as the Fulfillment of Creation: The Roles of the Divine Intermediary in Hellenistic Judaism
  • 1. Wisdom of Solomon
  • 2. Philo of Alexandria
  • 3. Summary of Chapter Three
• 4. Salvation as the Reparation of Creation: The Roles of the Divine Intermediary in New Testament Christology
  • 1. Ontology and Eschatology in Conflict 1 Corinthians 8:6-An Introductory Case Study
  • 2. Colossians 1:15-20
  • 3. Hebrews 1:1-4
  • 4. The Johannine Prologue
  • 5. Summary of Chapter Four
• 5. Salvation as the Undoing of Creation: The Roles of the Divine Intermediary in Gnosticism
  • 1. Corpus Hermeticum 1: "Poimandres"
  • 2. The Apocryphon of John
  • 3. Summary of Chapter Five
• 6. Conclusion
  • 1. Thesis Statement
  • 2. First Move-The Source Tradition: Middle Platonic Intermediary Doctrine
  • 3. The Second Move- Hellenistic Jewish Sapientialism: The Divine Intermediary and the Fulfillment of Cosmology
  • 4. Third Move-Early Christianity: The Divine Intermediary and the Reparation of Creation
  • 5. Fourth Move: Gnosticism-The Divine Intermediary and the Undoing of Creation
  • 6. Synthesis

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