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Apollos: Pauls Partner or Rival? (Paul's Social Network: Brothers & Sisters in Faith) by (Biblical figure) Apollos;Apollos (Biblical figure);Hartin, Patrick J.;the Apostle Saint Paul;the Apostle Saint. Paul is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Human beings are embedded in a set of social relations. A social network is one way of conceiving that set of relations in terms of a number of persons connected to one another by varying degrees of relatedness. In the early Jesus-group documents featuring Paul and coworkers, it takes little effort to envision the apostle's collection of friends and friends of friends that is the Pauline network. The persons who constituted that network are the focus of this set of brief books. For Christians of the Western tradition, these persons are significant ancestors in faith. While each of them is worth knowing by themselves, it is largely because of their standing within that web of social relations woven about and around Paul that they are of lasting interest. Through this series we hope to come to know those persons in ways befitting their first-century Mediterranean culture. Apollos is an enigmatic character whose name appears in only three New Testament writings. Through a social-scientific approach, this study pays attention to four main aspects relative to his collectivistic nature as a person of the first-century Mediterranean; his relationship to Corinth and its emerging conflicts;

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Author

(Biblical figure) Apollos;Apollos (Biblical figure);Hartin, Patrick J.;the Apostle Saint Paul;the Apostle Saint. Paul

Publisher

Liturgical Press 320-322

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9780814684047

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Religion, Christian, Bible