scholarly journals ‘He Will Rescue Us Again’: Affliction and Hope in 2 Corinthians 1:8–11

Religions ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 222
Author(s):  
Sean F. Winter
Keyword(s):  
Corinthians 1 ◽  
2 Corinthians ◽  
Pauline Theology ◽  
Life Itself ◽  
Do So

Dark times can generate crippling despair all too easily. Resources for resistance to despair and for the discovery and articulation of hope are not always readily apparent. This essay considers Paul’s account of his own immersion in such a situation: An ‘affliction’ that left him ‘unbearably crushed’, ‘despairing of life itself’ (2 Cor 1:9), and under a ‘sentence of death’ (2 Cor 1:10). Making a speculative proposal about the nature of Paul’s experience, the essay goes on to argue that Paul identified two fundamental resources for hope. The first is a conviction about an eschatological act that undoes the sentence of death and effects the possibility of rescue or deliverance. The second is a form of human solidarity that generates potential reorientation to the reality of ‘rescue’. While the essay explores these ideas within the terms and framework of Paul’s rhetoric in 2 Corinthians, it will do so with one clear eye on the potential resources that Pauline theology offers those who live in inexplicably dark times today, not least by considering the potential resources for political optimism.

The Credentials of an Apostle: Paul's Gospel in 2 Corinthians 1-7

1999 ◽  
Vol 118 (3) ◽  
pp. 561
Author(s):  
Laurence L. Welborn ◽  
David A. deSilva
Keyword(s):  
Corinthians 1 ◽  
2 Corinthians

BETWEEN ECONOMIES INTHE MILL ON THE FLOSS: LOANS VERSUS GIFTS, OR, AUDITING MR. TULLIVER'S ACCOUNTS

2005 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 219-237 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathleen Blake
Keyword(s):  
Economic Analysis ◽  
George Eliot ◽  
Next Generation ◽  
The Troubles ◽  
Mill On The Floss ◽  
Life Itself ◽  
Do So

MR. TULLIVER DRAWS LITTLE ATTENTIONfrom critics ofThe Mill on the Flosscompared to his children, Maggie and Tom, and his finances are hardly ever looked at in any detail, just as other sections of George Eliot's novel that concern economics are not. Yet George Eliot says Mr. Tulliver has his tragedy, as do his daughter and son, and it is precisely Mr. Tulliver's money trouble, his bankruptcy, that sets the condition for the troubles of the next generation. I seek to trace a narrative logic for a novel that has seemed to many to strain plot coherence, and I do so by an economic analysis that allows a link to be drawn between such seemingly disparate tragedies as a father's financial ruin and death and his children's drowning, with the sister giving up love then life itself to reclaim her brother's favor, seeking in vain to rescue him from a flood.

scholarly journals The comforted comforter: The meaning of παρακαλέω or παράκλησις terminology in 2 Corinthians

2011 ◽  
Vol 67 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Reimund Bieringer
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Corinthians 1 ◽  
2 Corinthians ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Way

In the Pauline homologoumena, παρακαλέω or παράκλησις terminology is used almost two and a half times (in 2 Corinthians even six and a half times) as frequently as in the remainder of the New Testament. In the first part of this article, a survey of the use of παρακαλέω or παράκλησις in the undisputed letters and its three major meanings was given: to request strongly, to exhort and to encourage or comfort. In the second part of the article, the LXX background of the unprecedented use of παρακαλέω or παράκλησις in 2 Corinthians 1:3–7 and 7:4.5–13, where God is the subject, was discussed. The conclusion was that when writing 2 Corinthians 1:3–7 and 7:4.5–13 Paul made use of the prophet Isaiah’s Book of Comfort and in his use of παρακαλέω or παράκλησις allows himself to be influenced by the way the LXX translator uses παρακαλέω to translate נחם.

2 Corinthians 1:17,18:Echo of a Dominical Logion

1986 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 271
Author(s):  
David Wenham
Keyword(s):  
Corinthians 1 ◽  
2 Corinthians
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