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Thanksgiving : an investigation of a Pauline theme /

by Pao, David W. Series: New studies in biblical theology ; . 13 Published by : Apollos ; | InterVarsity Press, (Leicester, England : | Downers Grove, Ill. :) Physical details: 212 pages ; 22 cm. ISBN:0830826130 (paper : alk. paper); 9780830826131 (paper : alk. paper); 0851112722; 9780851112725. Year: 2002
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 174-196) and indexes.

Thanksgiving as God-centredness. Source and traditions ; Epistolary thanksgiving ; A cross-cultural examination ; To say 'Thanks' ; Thanksgiving and worship ; Thanksgiving as God-centredness -- Thanksgiving within the covenantal traditions. God and his people ; The past in covenantal traditions ; The present in covenenantal traditions ; The future in covenantal traditions ; Paul and the covenantal traditions ; Thanksgiving and the covenantal traditions -- Thanksgiving and covenantal history. Thanksgiving as remembrance ; Remembrance as a covenantal act ; Confessing the mighty acts of God ; Climax of history ; 'Do this in remembrance of me' ; The Pauline gospel ; Divine acts through human agency ; Grace and thanksgiving -- A life of thanksgiving. To walk in him ; Anti-idol polemic ; Thanksgiving offering ; In all circumstances ; Redefinition of the structure of authority ; Covenantal relationship -- Thanksgiving and the future. Faithful and powerful God ; Bridging the past and the future ; Future as grounds for thanksgiving ; In light of the future -- Ingratitude. Rejection of the mighty acts of God ; Forgetting their Lord and worshipping idols ; 'Do not grumble, as some of them did' ; 'They neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him' ; 'Lovers of themselves' -- Pauline thanksgiving and the Greco-Roman benefaction system. The Greco-Roman patron-client network ; Gratitude in the patron-client relationship ; Pauline thanksgiving and the patronage model.

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