Christ's Body in Corinth

副标题: The Politics of a Metaphor (Paul in Critical Contexts) (Paul in Critical Contexts)

ISBN: 9780800662851

出版社: Fortress Press

出版年: 2008-08-01

页数: 256

定价: USD 29.00

装帧: Hardcover

内容简介

Yung Suk Kim takes up the language of "body" that infuses 1 Corinthians, Paul's most complicated letter, and the letter that provides us the most information, and poses the sharpest questions, about social realities in the early church. Kim argues against the view that in speaking of the church as Christ's body Paul seeks to emphasize unity and the social boundary. Against the conventional rhetoric of the "body politic" in Greco-Roman philosophy, Kim argues that Paul seeks rather to nourish the vitality of a diverse community and to criticize the ideology of a powerful in-group in Corinth, a message of particular importance for contemporary global Christianity.