Abstract
The Graeco-Roman world has an indelible mark in shaping and influencing the background of the New Testament. The style of leadership in the context was more in the form of αἰ σχροκερδῶς ‘greedy’ and κατακυριεύω‘tyranny or lording over’ (1 Peter 5:2-3) motives both from its political and religious perspectives. The purpose of the study is to demonstrate how such a background of the Graeco-Roman world shape and contributes to the writing of the epistle of 1 Peter, exclusively on the aspect of leadership in the church and Christian community. The study used the socio-historical method to show the condition and struggle of the early Christian amid greedy and tranny leaders in the Graeco-Roman context. The study, therefore, seeks to supply theologians as well as church leaders or Pastors with a better understanding of leadership from a socio-historical background of the Graeco-Roman world and how that can help in reading and handling issues of leadership in the New Testament, especially the epistle of 1 Peter.
Highlights
The Graeco-Roman world has an indelible mark in epistle of 1 Peter, especially chapter 5:2-3 on the pattern shaping and influencing the background of the New Testament
In the Graeco-Roman context, attitudes demonstrated by the leaders towards the good leadership with the right motive is dependent on people develop a big barrier between them and the the goodness of whoever was governing
As well persecuted the Christians. It is an end in the Roman Empire, as a result of both believed that the Domitian persecution of the Christian αἰσχροκερδῶς and κατακυριεύω form of leadership may have provided a background for Revelation, written displayed by the emperors
Summary
The Graeco-Roman world has an indelible mark in epistle of 1 Peter, especially chapter 5:2-3 on the pattern shaping and influencing the background of the New Testament. The socio-historical approach is adopted and use in this study to analyse, and appraise the magnitude of αἰσχροκερδῶς and κατακυριεύω form of leadership in the Graeco-Roman world at the time the epistle of 1 Peter was written and the nature of suffering the Christian community was experiencing.
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