Description
Book SynopsisInvestigates how the author of the Pastoral Epistles (1, 2 Timothy and Titus) strategically appealed to the Greek and Roman virtues of piety (
eusebeia,
pietas) to ease external and internal sociocultural threats.
Trade ReviewScholarly attention to the rhetorical strategies of the New Testament writers has been one of the happy outcomes of the last thirty years or so of biblical research. Civilized Piety makes an outstanding contribution to this enterprise, even more so given the relative paucity of such treatments with respect to the Pastorals. -- Mark Harding -- Review of Biblical Literature
"Exceptional and elegantly argued." -- Baylor University Press
Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Politics of Piety in the Pastoral Epistles 1. Piety in Caesarâs House 2. Piety in Godâs House 3. Honoring Piety in the City 4. Honoring Piety in the EkklÄsia 5. The Mystery of Philosophical Piety 6. The Mystery of Pastoral Piety Conclusion: A Pious and Civilized Christian in the Roman Empire
