Tag: Caesar as paterfamilias

Household: Reviewing the Big Picture (Part 2)

Sep 7, 2007

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by

mwkruse

in Culture, History, Series: Household of God, Sociology, Theology

Jesus and the New Testament leaders needed ways to express metaphorically the ethos of God's new community. Family and household became dominant metaphors. There were instances of the household image in the Old Testament but nothing like the rich imagery we see in the New Testament. Yet the Jesus movement was not the only one…
Household: Paul as Father?

Aug 20, 2007

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by

mwkruse

in Culture, History, Series: Household of God, Sociology, Theology

Paul followed in Jesus' footsteps in his use of fictive family to convey theological truths, but Paul also used fictive family metaphors to indicate his own sense of fond relationship for those he had nurtured in the faith: 1 Thessalonians 2:5-12 5 As you know and as God is our witness, we never came with…