Overview
Hebrews 12:1-13 portrays the suffering of its readers with two images: an athletic contest, and God's fatherly discipline. N. Clayton Croy places this important passage in the context of Jewish and Greco-Roman traditions. He argues that the idea of "training" unites the passage, which presents Jesus as the supreme athlete. It also supports a nonpunitive understanding of discipline, in which God's children undergo a positive process of education. These ideas combine to support a call in Hebrews to faithful endurance rather than repentance.
- | Author: N. Clayton Croy
- | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- | Publication Date: Feb 26, 1998
- | Number of Pages: 262 pages
- | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
- | ISBN-10: 0521593050
- | ISBN-13: 9780521593052
