Contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction: Divine Guidance in the 1st and 21st centuries
Part I. Divine Guidance Among Greeks and Romans: Corinth as a Case
Study
1. Roman Corinth
2. The Archeology of Divine Guidance in Corinth
3. The Literature of Divine Guidance: Homer, Virgil and Horace
4. Other Roman Writers: Propertius, Ovid, Livy, Lucan and
Petronius
5. The Stoic Philosopher Posidonius
6. Roman Philosophers: Lucretius, Cicero, Seneca, Pliny
7. Plutarch: Greco-Roman Bridge Between Rational and Mystical
Part II. Divine Guidance Among Jews
8. The Jewish Community
9. Philo
10. Josephus
11. The Dead Sea Scrolls, Pseudepigrapha, and "Expansions of
Scripture"
12. Rabbinic Sources
Part III. Paul
13. Neither Jew nor Greek: 1 Corinthians, Paul's Primer on Divine
Guidance
Part IV. Reprise: Divine Guidance in the 1st and 21st Centuries
14. Divine Guidance: Continuing the Conversation into the
Twenty-First Century
Notes
Bibliography
Index
John A. Jillions did his doctoral research at Tyndale House,
Cambridge, and Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, where he
received a PhD in New Testament in 2002. He has MDiv and DMin
degrees from St Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary and a BA
in Economics from McGill University. He was founding Principal of
the Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies in Cambridge,
Associate Professor of Theology at Saint Paul University in Canada,
and
served for seven years in New York as Chancellor of the Orthodox
Church in America. He is currently Associate Professor of Religion
and Culture at St Vladimir's Seminary and teaches "Faith and
Critical Reason" at Fordham
University. He has been a priest since 1984, serving communities in
Australia, Greece, England, Canada and the United States, where he
now serves as pastor of Holy Ghost Church in Bridgeport,
Connecticut.
"This is an intriguing approach to understanding a complex epistle
in the light of Paul's own convictions concerning his calling and
the continuing presence of Christ and the Spirit in the emerging
Christian community....a pioneering study." -- Paul Ladouceur,
University of Toronto, Journal of Orthodox Christian Studies
"This study is framed with remarkable scholarly and pastoral
sensitivity... It demonstrates methodical, perceptive, theological
and philological analysis of the historical sources while also
engaging with contemporary theological, ecclesiological and
ecumenical issues." -- Petros Vassiliadis, Aristotle University of
Thessaloniki, Theologia 91:1
"What a time to have a book appear about divine guidance! The
endless, and on the whole very depressing, debates among Catholic
and Orthodox Christians I have been watching, especially over
whether the sacraments - the Eucharist especially - have some kind
of magical properties given by God to "protect" people...have been
almost entirely unedifying to behold...Along comes the calm, cool
scholarship of Fr John Jillions in this moment." -- Eastern
Christian
Books
"By a comprehensive historical survey of literary and religious
evidence from Greco-Roman and Jewish cultures, Fr. Jillions offers
a brilliant analysis of Paul's letter to the Corinthians.
Philosophical reflections about grace and free will, faith and
reason, inspired Scripture and personal experience, encounter the
cross. This book reflects that of all theological doctrines, the
most challenging may be providence: does God sit idle in heaven, or
does he
exercise divine guidance in our lives?" -- David W. Fagerberg,
Professor, University of Notre Dame
"John Jillions has written a book that is a splendid work of
scholarship, and on a fascinating (if neglected) topic. But it is
ever so much more than that: a rich, searching, moving meditation
on some of the most essential dimensions of spiritual longing and
religious hope." -- David Bentley Hart, author of The Hidden and
the Manifest: Essays in Theology and Metaphysics
"This is a work of original scholarship that breaks new ground. It
is of interest to specialists in the field of New Testament studies
and early church history, but it is written in such a way that it
will also appeal to a wider field, including theology students in
general, and clergy and laity who are not necessary academics. I
predict it will become the standard treatment of the subject." --
Metropolitan Kallistos (Ware) of Diokleia
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