Written To Serve: The Use of Scripture in 1 Peter

By Benjamin Sargent

Book Overview

The use of Scripture in 1 Peter has been subject to much extensive analysis in the last thirty years. In Written to Serve Benjamin Sargent offers an up to date and comprehensive analysis of how 1 Pet 1.10-12 offers a 'hermeneutic, ' providing an insight into how Scripture is interpreted in the letter. Sargent also argues that the relation of 1.10-12 has been misunderstood. Rather than offering a Christological hermeneutic with a focus on the suffering and glories of Christ, Sargent asserts that the primary importance of 1.10-12 is its orientation of the prophetic witness towards the eschatological community as an act of service. Similarly, rather than offering a theological narrative of continuity between Israel and Christian communities, 1.10-12 may be seen to suggest a narrative of profound discontinuity in which the community in the present is elevated above God's people of the past.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 056767245X
• ISBN13: 9780567672452
• Release Date: July 2018
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"