Catalogical Parenesis is a literary device used in the bible .
Karl Barth identifies two types of Catalogical Parenesis
1. Type 1: Registers good and evil deeds with the promise of rewards or threats of punishments respectively.
Eg: For if you live according to the sinful nature, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live, Romans 8:13
2. Type 2: Registers vices and virtues and then exhorts the readers to "put off" the vices and "put on" the new nature in Christ(virtues) based on their identity as a people belonging to God.
Eg:
19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
24 And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.
25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
1 Peter 1:14,15
14 As obedient children, do not conform to the evil desires you had when you lived in ignorance. 15 But just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do; 16 for it is written: “Be holy, because I am holy."
Here Paul in Galatians exhort the readers to "crucify the flesh with it's affections and lusts" and "walk in the Spirit" because they belong to Christ and Peter admonishes , "Do not conform to the evil desires" but "be holy in all you do" because the God whom they worship is Holy.
These NT literary devices were used to drive home practical teachings by comparing and contrasting and tieing the persuasion and dissuasion to their identity as people who belong to Christ , a people worshipping a Holy God and people are privilaged and called by his name. This ties the responsibilities which are associated with the privilages ,so that the teaching fully conveys what God's plan for his Church and individual Christians is during their time on earth.
Karl Barth identifies two types of Catalogical Parenesis
1. Type 1: Registers good and evil deeds with the promise of rewards or threats of punishments respectively.
Eg: For if you live according to the sinful nature, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live, Romans 8:13
2. Type 2: Registers vices and virtues and then exhorts the readers to "put off" the vices and "put on" the new nature in Christ(virtues) based on their identity as a people belonging to God.
Eg:
19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
24 And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.
25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
1 Peter 1:14,15
14 As obedient children, do not conform to the evil desires you had when you lived in ignorance. 15 But just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do; 16 for it is written: “Be holy, because I am holy."
Here Paul in Galatians exhort the readers to "crucify the flesh with it's affections and lusts" and "walk in the Spirit" because they belong to Christ and Peter admonishes , "Do not conform to the evil desires" but "be holy in all you do" because the God whom they worship is Holy.
These NT literary devices were used to drive home practical teachings by comparing and contrasting and tieing the persuasion and dissuasion to their identity as people who belong to Christ , a people worshipping a Holy God and people are privilaged and called by his name. This ties the responsibilities which are associated with the privilages ,so that the teaching fully conveys what God's plan for his Church and individual Christians is during their time on earth.
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