Argument and Theology in 1 Peter: The Origins of Christian Paraenesis (Biblia.com)

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Using both ancient and modern rhetoric, linguistics, and argumentation theory, this study offers a fresh approach to 1 Peter and New Testament ethics. It is often claimed that the growing interest in paraenesis, or ethical teaching, among early Christians indicates how Jesus’ revolutionary teaching and the Pauline notion of justification by faith were gradually replaced by an emphasis on good...

situations of the letter can be taken into account. This book attempts to explain how the paraenesis is motivated in 1 Peter. An ideological analysis of this rhetorical text will be executed with a specific technique. By identifying the motivating expressions, and analysing their function in their argumentative context, and by comparing the roles which different themes play in the structures of argumentation in the whole Letter, I seek to reconstruct an ideological structure beyond the text and its

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