Divine Guidance

John A. Jillions did his doctoral research at Tyndale House, Cambridge, and Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, where he received a PhD in New Testament in 2002. He has MDiv and DMin degrees from St Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary and a BA in Economics from McGill University. He was founding Principal of the Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies in Cambridge, Associate Professor of Theology at Saint Paul University in Canada, and served for seven years in New York as Chancellor of the Orthodox Church in America. He is currently Associate Professor of Religion and Culture at St Vladimir's Seminary and teaches "Faith and Critical Reason" at Fordham University. He has been a priest since 1984, serving communities in Australia, Greece, England, Canada and the United States, where he now serves as pastor of Holy Ghost Church in Bridgeport, Connecticut.

Contents
Acknowledgments
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Introduction: Divine Guidance in the 1st and 21st centuries

Part I. Divine Guidance Among Greeks and Romans: Corinth as a Case Study

1. Roman Corinth
2. The Archeology of Divine Guidance in Corinth
3. The Literature of Divine Guidance: Homer, Virgil and Horace
4. Other Roman Writers: Propertius, Ovid, Livy, Lucan and Petronius
5. The Stoic Philosopher Posidonius
6. Roman Philosophers: Lucretius, Cicero, Seneca, Pliny
7. Plutarch: Greco-Roman Bridge Between Rational and Mystical

Part II. Divine Guidance Among Jews

8. The Jewish Community
9. Philo
10. Josephus
11. The Dead Sea Scrolls, Pseudepigrapha, and "Expansions of Scripture"
12. Rabbinic Sources

Part III. Paul

13. Neither Jew nor Greek: 1 Corinthians, Paul's Primer on Divine Guidance

Part IV. Reprise: Divine Guidance in the 1st and 21st Centuries

14. Divine Guidance: Continuing the Conversation into the Twenty-First Century

Notes
Bibliography
Index