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The Ritualized Revelation of the Messianic Age: Washings and Meals in Galatians and 1 Corinthians (The Library of New Testament Studies) - Softcover

Richard Turley, Stephen

 
9780567683052: The Ritualized Revelation of the Messianic Age: Washings and Meals in Galatians and 1 Corinthians (The Library of New Testament Studies)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0567683052 ISBN 13: 9780567683052
Publisher: T&T Clark, 2018

Synopsis

Turley begins by surveying the history of the interface between ritual studies and Pauline scholarship, identifying the scholarly gaps in both method and conclusions and a ritual theory adequate to address such gaps. The focus of the work is then on the two rituals that identified the Pauline communities: ritual washings and ritual meals. Turley explores Galatians and 1 Corinthians, two letters that present the richest spread of evidence pertinent to ritual theory.

By exploring Paul's reference to ritual washings and meals with a heuristic use of ritual theory, Turley concludes that rituals in early Christianity were inherently revelatory, in that they revealed the dawning of the messianic age through the bodies of the ritual participants. This bodily revelation established both a distinctly Christian ethic and a distinctly Christian social space by which such an ethical identity might be identified and sustained.

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About the Author

Stephen Richard Turley (Ph.D., University of Durham, UK) teaches Theology, Greek, and Rhetoric at Tall Oaks Classical School in New Castle, USA, and is Professor of Fine Arts at Eastern University in PA, USA.

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Publisher
T&T Clark
Publication date
2018
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0567683052
ISBN 13 
9780567683052
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
210