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 Paul's Idea of Community: The Early House Churches in their Cultural Setting Revised Edition Robert Banks 
 Description From The Publisher: Robert Bank's widely read Paul's Idea of Community: The Early House Churches in their Cultural Setting is once again available to lay people, pastors, and scholars alike. In this extensively revised edition Banks has rewritten chapters for clarity, taken into account recent scholarship on Paul's writings, updated and expanded he bibliography, and added an index. The new edition retains, however, all the freshness and vitality of the original. Reviews "The book draws fully upon the wealth of recent scholarly analysis of the New Testament churches, but in such a skilled way that the picture is not buried in learning, but brought to life for present-day readers. . . . People will be startled to find how much of modern church life has departed form the New Testament spirit. And yet the modern communities still possess in the New Testament, as illuminated through a book like this, the sources from which church life can be reawakened to the community consequences of accepting the Pauline gospel." Edwin A. Judge, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia "It is good news that Robert Banks's Paul's Idea of Community is once more available, now in a thoroughly revised, expanded edition. Convinced that Paul's distinctive contribution to Christianity is his idea of community, Banks demonstrates how this notion informs Paul's instruction to his churches. . . . [I]t is striking how naturally discussions of such topics as Paul's teaching on freedom and on eschatology fall within the purview of this stimulating book." Abraham J. Malherbe, Yale University
 Reader's Index Send us your favorite quotes or passages from this book. About the Author Robert Banks is director and dean of Macquarie Christian Studies Institute in Sydney, Australia. Formerly he served as executive director of the De Pree Leadership Center and Homer L. Goddard Professor of the Ministry of the Laity, both at Fuller Theological Seminary. He has been an international leader in house church ministry and served as coordinator of the City of Angels Film Festival (Los Angeles). His books include Paul's Idea of Community and Redeeming the Routines. Table of Contents
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