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.
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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