The Corinthian Body

Author : Dale B. Martin
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0300081723

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The Corinthian Body by Dale B. Martin Pdf

Annotation In this intriguing discussion of Paul's first letter to the Corinthians, Dale Martin contends that Paul's various disagreements with the Corinthians were the result of a fundamental conflict over the ideological construction of the human body (and hence the church as the body of Christ). This led to differing opinions on a variety of theological viewpoints--including the role of rhetoric and philosophy in a hierarchical society, the eating of meat sacrificed to idols, prostitution, sexual desire and marriage, and the resurrection of the body. Book jacket.

Author : Albert V. Garcilazo
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 0820495212

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The Corinthian Dissenters and the Stoics by Albert V. Garcilazo Pdf

This book focuses on the controversy recorded in 1 Corinthians 15 regarding the denial of the resurrection of the dead. Many attempts and proposals have been made to understand the background of Paul's opponents. By focusing on the possible impact of Stoicism, Albert V. Garcilazo argues that the internal evidence of the letter indicates that some of the Corinthians had adopted a realized eschatology as well as an antisomatic view of the resurrection, which in turn prompted them to reject the future resurrection of the dead. Garcilazo suggests that the higher status members of the congregation were influenced by the cosmological, anthropological, and ethical teachings of the Stoa, especially the tenets of the Roman Stoics. He demonstrates this possibility by first considering the similarities between the doctrines of the Corinthian dissenters and the teachings of the Stoic philosophers, particularly the teachings of Seneca. Following a brief overview of Stoicism, the author concentrates on some of the theological issues revealed in the letter and examines how other scholars have interpreted 1 Corinthians 15. Finally, he provides a detailed analysis of 1 Corinthians 15:12-49. In short, Garcilazo argues that the philosophy of the Stoics seemingly contributed to the resurrection controversy recorded in 1 Corinthians 15.

Author : Joan Riley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1425490150

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10 The Corinthian body and the preferential inclusion of the rejected (1 Corinthians 12:12-31). by Joan Riley Pdf

Author : Brian Brock,Bernd Wannenwetsch
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498234191

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The Malady of the Christian Body by Brian Brock,Bernd Wannenwetsch Pdf

The ailments of the contemporary church are remarkably similar to those suffered by the fractious Corinthian church in the first century. This is the challenge presented in The Malady of the Christian Body, a two-volume commentary by Brian Brock and Bernd Wannenwetsch. The manner in which Paul engages questions of factionalism, sexuality, legal conflict, idolatry, dress codes, and eating habits reveals that neither the malady he diagnoses nor the therapy he offers track the dominant accounts currently on offer of the malaise suffered by today's church. This volume depicts the Apostle as carefully examining the organic whole that is the body of Christ in order to detect obstacles to the healthy flow of powers that sustain its life. The therapy that is then offered comes by way of a redirection of the Corinthian believers' attention to the ways in which they can embrace God's active working among them to heal their broken unity. This book breaks new ground in crossing and reconfiguring the traditional disciplinary boundaries between biblical studies, systematic theology, and theological ethics.

Author : Yung Suk Kim
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781451420456

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Christ's Body in Corinth by Yung Suk Kim Pdf

* A timely discussion of a key Pauline theme and its value for the global church * Challenges a consensus regarding the "politics" of 1 Corinthians

Author : Alistair May
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2004-09-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567080967

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The Body for the Lord by Alistair May Pdf

Alistair May explores the part played by sexual ethics and the rhetoric of sexual morality in the formation of Christian identity by focusing on the longest discussion of sex in the New Testament - 1Corinthians 5-7. Viewing this passage as a unified discourse, he considers how Paul's ethics serve to give his converts a distinct identity. Although tools from the social sciences are used, the major focus of the work is in careful exegesis of the text. As the study progresses through the text of 1Corinthians 5-7, May argues that Paul strives to maintain an absolute distinction between insider and outsider in regard to morality. Immorality belongs exclusively to the outside and to the pre-conversion identity of the Corinthians. Hence those labelled immoral can no longer remain in the community. 1 Corinthians 6.12-20 reveals that, for Paul, sexual sin is unique in its destruction of Christian identity and that any sexual participation is a potential conflict with participation in Christ. Thus, chapter 6 is directly connected with the discussion of the legitimacy of marriage in 1Corinthians 7. Rejecting the scholarly consensus that Paul is reacting to ascetics, May controversially argues that chapter 7 should be read as Paul's commendation of singleness to a reluctant Corinthian audience. This is volume 278 in the Journal for the Study of the New Testament Supplement series.

Author : Anna C. Miller
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781620329054

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Corinthian Democracy by Anna C. Miller Pdf

In this innovative study, Anna Miller challenges prevailing New Testament scholarship that has largely dismissed the democratic civic assembly--the ekklēsia--as an institution that retained real authority in the first century CE. Using an interdisciplinary approach, she examines a range of classical and early imperial sources to demonstrate that ekklēsia democracy continued to saturate the eastern Roman Empire, widely impacting debates over authority, gender, and speech. In the first letter to the Corinthians, she demonstrates that Paul's persuasive rhetoric is itself shaped and constrained by the democratic discourse he shares with his Corinthian audience. Miller argues that these first-century Corinthians understood their community as an authoritative democratic assembly in which leadership and "citizenship" cohered with the public speech and discernment open to each. This Corinthian identity illuminates struggles and debates throughout the letter, including those centered on leadership, community dynamics, and gender. Ultimately, Miller's study offers new insights into the tensions that inform Paul's letter. In turn, these insights have critical implications for the dialogue between early Judaism and Hellenism, the study of ancient politics and early Christianity, and the place of gender in ancient political discourse.

Author : Dan Nighswander
Publisher : MennoMedia, Inc.
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781513802459

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1 Corinthians by Dan Nighswander Pdf

Christians in the bustling, diverse city of Corinth in 50 BCE quarreled about how to be faithful to Jesus. In Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians, he calls the small band of new believers to unity and cautions against factionalism, themes that pastor Dan Nighswander unpacks for contemporary readers in this thirty-second volume in the Believers Church Bible Commentary series. Any Christians who experience division over loyalty to different leaders, who find it hard to agree on sexual ethics (or to live up to them), and who feel tension between their theological convictions and social context will find common ground with believers in Corinth. Home of the exalted “love chapter,” which roots all Christian action in the greatest gift, 1 Corinthians equips those who follow Jesus to craft true community with other believers, differences notwithstanding. With keen theological, biblical, and pastoral insight, Nighswander illuminates for readers the apostle Paul’s challenge to the Corinthian church and calls Christians today to unity through the reconciling work of Christ. Free downloadable study guide available here.

Author : Boyung Lee
Publisher : Presbyterian Publishing Corp
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781611643671

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Transforming Congregations through Community by Boyung Lee Pdf

In this helpful book, Boyung Lee offers an encouraging vision of the mainline church's future. Lee grapples with some of the greatest challenges facing the mainline church, offering compelling responses to recurring questions: What does faithfulness to the gospel look like in this changing world? What is our distinctive voice in the larger society? How does theological education have to change if it is to serve the needs of a new century? Lee argues that the church's future is a promising one if the church can offer a richer and deeper definition of community--one that moves beyond the excessive individualism of western culture and that helps mainline Christians understand their solidarity with one another and with all of God's people. Lee further explores the crucial role of faith formation at the congregational and seminary levels. More than mere schooling, theological education must engage all aspects of educators' and students' lives to prepare seminarians for the challenges that lie ahead. While not dismissing the mainline church's challenges, Lee offers congregational leaders and seminary educators a vision of a church transformed for the 21st century.

Author : Joseph A. Marchal
Publisher : SBL Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780884145202

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After the Corinthian Women Prophets by Joseph A. Marchal Pdf

Rhetoric, Power, and Possibilities Thirty years after the publication of Antoinette Clark Wire’s groundbreaking The Corinthian Women Prophets, an interdisciplinary, international, and intergenerational group of scholars reflects upon Wire’s impact on New Testament scholarship. Essays pursue further historical and theoretical possibilities, often in search of marginalized people, including the women of Corinth, using feminist, rhetorical, materialist, decolonizing, queer, and posthumanist approaches to interpret Paul’s letters and the history of ancient Mediterranean assemblies. Contributions from Cavan Concannon, Arminta Fox, Joseph A. Marchal, Shelly Matthews, Anna Miller, Jorunn Økland, and Antoinette Clark Wire reconsider how both the methods and results of Wire’s work reveal the possibilities of other people beside Paul who are worth our attention and effort. The essays in this collection introduce students and scholars to the possibilities of interdisciplinary and intersectional approaches for engaging the broader Pauline corpus.

Author : Pope Clement I
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1768
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0019781345

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The First Epistle of Clemens Romanus to the Church at Corinth by Pope Clement I Pdf

Author : David G. Horrell
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1996-08-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567403605

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The Social Ethos of the Corinthian Correspondence by David G. Horrell Pdf

An exemplary study, focussing on the Corinthian correspondence, of the social ethos of early Christian teaching and its development.

Author : Nicholas Meyer
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004322929

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Adam’s Dust and Adam’s Glory in the Hodayot and the Letters of Paul by Nicholas Meyer Pdf

In this volume, Nicholas A. Meyer offers a rethinking of the theological frameworks informing the use of traditions of the creation of humankind in the Hodayot and the letters of Paul.

Author : Douglas A. Campbell
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781467449427

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Paul by Douglas A. Campbell Pdf

Douglas Campbell has made a name for himself as one of Paul’s most insightful and provocative interpreters. In this short and spirited book Campbell introduces readers to the apostle he has studied in depth over his scholarly career. Enter with Campbell into Paul’s world, relive the story of Paul’s action-packed ministry, and follow the development of Paul’s thought throughout both his physical and his spiritual travels. Ideal for students, individual readers, and study groups, Paul: An Apostle’s Journey dramatically recounts the life of one of early Christianity’s most fascinating figures—and offers powerful insight into his mind and his influential message.

Author : Lisa M. Bowens,Dennis R. Edwards
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2023-06-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781666705416

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Do Black Lives Matter? by Lisa M. Bowens,Dennis R. Edwards Pdf

In this book Lisa Bowens and Dennis R. Edwards collate a virtual manifesto on the way the Bible serves as inspiration, theological grist, and even the language needed to be the change to people of good faith everywhere. The authors of this book challenge the forces of racism that are so deeply entrenched in church and society today offering prophetic insight into Black resilience and the historic and ongoing importance of Scripture to that resilience. The authors also forefront the significance of Scripture to the Black struggle for justice by bringing together here prominent, gifted Black scholars in biblical studies, ethics, history, and theology, as their work and writing contribute so much to the ongoing struggle against injustice. The book will offer both biblical reflection celebrating an African American theological reading and a prophetic call to arms by means of sermons and other reflections. The book includes contributions from: Jaime L. Waters Jennifer Kaalund Angela Parker Reggie Williams Antonia Daymond Brian Bantum Danjuma Gibson David Daniels Y. Joy Harris-Smith Vince Bantu Ralph Basui Watkins Marcia Clarke Valerie Landfair Antipas Harris Luke Powery Efrem Smith Donyelle McCray Jamal-Dominique Hopkins.