%0 Journal Article
%T Spirituality as ¡°good Christian citizenship¡± in the pastoral epistles?
%A LK Pietersen
%J Acta Theologica
%D 2011
%I 
%X Dibelius, in his commentary on the Pastoral Epistles, suggested that they represented a way-of-being in the world resulting from the delay of the parousia. As such they advocate a form of spirituality which can best be described as ¡°good Christian citizenship¡±. This paper, drawing on both Taylor¡¯s understanding of the ¡°social imaginary¡± and Waaijman¡¯s understanding of spirituality, examines Dibelius¡¯ contention by revisiting the concept of eusebeia (godliness/piety), which is prevalent in the Pastorals, in the light of the lived experience of pagans, Jews and Christians in first-century Ephesus.
%U http://www.ajol.info/index.php/actat/article/view/72915