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Paul's Drive for Deviants

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 November 2003

F. GERALD DOWNING
F. GERALD DOWNING
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Abstract

How did Paul on his own or with a companion or two turn (apparently) ordinary Hellenistic townspeople into deviant atheists? ‘A theory of conversion to a deviant perspective’ (Lofland and Stark) and the example of Cynic deviancy suggest a plausible explanation.

Type
Research Article
Information
New Testament Studies , Volume 49 , Issue 3 , July 2003 , pp. 360 - 371
Copyright
2003 Cambridge University Press

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Footnotes

An offered short paper, SNTS Conference, Durham, 2002; versions of it have been presented at VTBS, Oxford, 1999, and in the Ehrhardt Biblical Studies Seminar, University of Manchester. I record my thanks for comments received (and here responded to), including those of the referee for NTS.