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

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

Abstract

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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