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Author Turley, Stephen Richard, author.

Title The ritualized revelation of the Messianic age : washings and meals in Galatians and 1 Corinthians / Stephen Richard Turley
Published London : Bloomsbury T & T Clark, 2015
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Description 1 online resource
Series Library of New Testament studies ; volume 544
Library of New Testament studies ; 544.
Contents 880-01 FC; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Abbreviations; Preface; Part I History of Research: A Ritual Reading of Paul; Chapter 1 Ritual Studies and Pauline Scholarship; 1.1. Introduction; 1.2. What is a Ritual Reading of Paul? Three Approaches; 1.2.1. Socio-Functional Significance of Pauline Rituals; 1.2.1.1. Limitations of Socio-Functional Analysis; 1.2.2. The Ritualized Body; 1.2.2.1. The Generative and Expressive Body; 1.2.3. Ritual as Social Practice; 1.3. Assessing the Field; 1.4. Ritual Theory and Procedure; 1.5. Summary; Part II Paul and Ritual Washings
880-01/(S 6.5. The Antiochene Meals and the Significance of Embodiment for Galatians 2.15-216.5.1. Seeing is Believing: Galatians 2.15-16; 6.5.2. ηργα νόμου; 6.5.3. δικαιόω/δικαιοσύνη; 6.5.4. πίστις Χριστου; 6.5.5. Galatians 2.17-21 and an Eschatological Lifeworld; 6.6. Summary and Conclusions; Chapter 7 The Logos of the Lord's Supper: 1 Corinthians 8-10; 7.1. Introduction; 7.2. Coherence and the Corinthian Correspondence; 7.3. Ritual and Cosmology: The Formation of a Liturgical Logos; 7.4. Cosmology and Habitus: The Socially Inscribed Body
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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SUBJECT Bible. Galatians -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
Bible. Corinthians, 1st -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
Bible. Corinthians, 1st fast
Bible. Galatians fast
Subject Baptism -- Biblical teaching
Lord's Supper -- Biblical teaching
Ritual -- Biblical teaching
Rites and ceremonies -- Biblical teaching
Ritualism -- Biblical teaching
RELIGION -- Biblical Studies -- New Testament.
RELIGION -- Biblical Studies -- Paul's Letters.
Baptism -- Biblical teaching
Lord's Supper -- Biblical teaching
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780567663870
0567663876
9780567663863
0567663868