Tables of Contents for Social Reality and the Early Christians
Introduction: Sociological Research into the New Testament
Some Ideas Offered by the Sociology of Knowledge for a New Exegetical Approach
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PART I STUDIES ON THE JESUS TRADITION AND THE SOCIAL REALITY OF THE FIRST CENTURY
Light Shed by the Sociology of Literature on the Early Transmission of Jesus Sayings
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``We Have Left Everything...'' (Mark 10:28)
Discipleship and Social Uprooting in the Jewish-Palestinian Society of the First Century
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Prophecy in the Tension between Town and Country
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Nonviolence and Love of Our Enemies (Matthew 5:38-48; Luke 6:27-38)
The Social Background
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PART II STUDIES ON PAULINE THEOLOGY AND THE SOCIAL REALITY OF THE FIRST CENTURY
Soteriological Symbolism in the Pauline Writings
A Structuralist Contribution
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Christology and Social Experience
Aspects of Pauline Christology in the Light of the Sociology of Knowledge
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Judaism and Christianity in Paul
The Beginning of a Schism and Its Social History
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PART III STUDIES ON EARLY CHRISTIANITY AND THE SOCIAL REALITY OF THE FIRST CENTURY
Sociological Theories of Religion and the Analysis of Early Christianity
Some Ideas about a Sociological Theory of Early Christianity
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Index: Ancient Sources
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