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God-Talk; Toward a Feminist Vieology (Boston: Beacon Press, 1983. An Inclusive
Language Lectionary Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, 1983. Jiirgen Moltmann,
"I Believe in God the Father: Patriarchal or Non-Patriarchal Reference to God?*' Drew
Gateway 59 [Spring 19901; M. Eugene Boring, "John 5:19-24,'* Interpretation Vol.
XLV, No. 2 (April 1991); and Alvin F. Kimal, Jr., Speaking the Christian God: The
Holy Trinity and the Challenge of Feminism (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1992).
14. Cf. especially John H. Elliott, A Home for the Homeless: A Sociological Exegesis
of 1 Peter, Its Situation and Strategy (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1981).
15. Col. 3:18-4:1; Eph. 5:21-6:9; Titus 2:1-10; 1 Tim. 2-3; 1 Clement 1:3; 21:6-9;
38:2ff. Polycarp to Philippians 4:1-6:1; Didache 4:9-11; Barnabas 19:5-7.
16. For a much more nuanced discussion than presented here, see David Balch,
"Hellenization/Acculturation in 1 Peter," and John H. Elliott, **1 Peter, Its Situation
and Strategy: A Discussion with David Balch,'* in Charles H. Talbert, ed., Perspectives
on First Peter. Special Studies Series, No. 9 (Macon, GA: Mercer University Press,
1986) 61-102.
17. Cf. Martin Luther's "The Freedom of a Christian," in John Dillenberger, ed.
Martin Luther; Selections from His Writings (Garden City, NY: Anchor Books/
Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1961), 43: "A Christian is perfectly free Lord of all, subject
to none. A Christian is a perfectly dutiful servant of all, subject to all." More recently,
cf. Karl Barth's "Letter to a Pastor in the German Democratic Republic,'* in How to
Serve God in a Marxist Land (New York: Association Press, 1959).
18. "Righteous** and "unrighteous" may sound too biblically quaint in many
modern ears, including the preacher's, until it is remembered that dikaiosune may also
be translated as "justice."
19. So e.g., Paul J, Achtemeier, "1 Peter," in James L. Mays, ed. Harper's Bible
Commentary (San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1988), 1283.
20. So e.g., W. J. Dalton, Oirist's Proclamation to the Spirits: A Study ofl Peter
3:18-4:6, AnBib 23. Rome: Biblical Institute Press, 1965), and "The First Epistle of
Peter," in Raymond E. Brown, Joseph A. Fitzmyer, and Roland E. Murphy, eds., The
New Jerome Biblical Commentary (Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1990).
For Further Study
Achtemeier, Paul J. 44
1 Peter," in James L. Mays, ed. Harper's Bible
Commentary. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1988.
Balch, David. L. Let Wives Be Submissive: The Domestic Code in 1
Peter, SBLMS 26. Chico: Scholars Press, 1981.
Beare, Frank. W. The First Epistle of Peter, 3rd rev. ed. Oxford:
Blackwell, 1970.
Best, Ernest. 1 Peter. NCB. London: Oliphants, 1971.
Brown, Raymond E., Karl P. Donfried, and John Reumann. Peter in
the New Testament. Minneapolis: Augsburg, 1973.
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