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The Ritualized Revelation of the Messianic Age

By Turley, Stephen Richard

The Ritualized Revelation of the Messianic Age Religion & Esotericism

The Ritualized Revelation of the Messianic Age

By Turley, Stephen Richard

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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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
210
Release Date:
2018-06-28
Publication Date:
2018-06-28
Publisher:
Continnuum-3PL
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0567683052
ISBN13:
9780567683052
Weight:
327 g
Height:
156 cm
Width:
234 cm
Thickness:
12 cm
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