The Impact of Bodily Experience on Paul’s Resurrection Theology
Ebook
Kai-Hsuan Chang engages with the longstanding scholarly debate concerning the development of Paul's resurrection theology, by investigating the correlation between his bodily experiences and his diverse articulations about resurrection. Drawing on insights from cognitive linguistics, Chang considers Paul's ideas about resurrection as fundamentally grounded in recurrent patterns of bodily experience, arguing that such experience of some religious activities in Paul's time-death rites, spirit possession, and baptism-contributed to the formation and development of his resurrection theology.
Chang demonstrates that developments in Paul's ideas about “bodily transformation at resurrection” - reflected in 1 Corinthians 15 - resulted from a change in the experiential patterns on which his new idea is constructed, rather than “transformation during heavenly ascent” as seen in Jewish traditions of resurrection. He thus applies cognitive linguistic tools to two considerations; first, whether Paul had contextual reasons to generate his innovation in 1 Corinthians 15, and second, whether Paul's innovation recurred or had continual effects in Christian groups. In so doing, Chang shows that Paul's innovation directly addressed a contextual issue of death rites in Corinth and exerted a continuing effect on Paul's later ideas of transformation, spirit possession, and baptism.
This volume argues that bodily experience contributed significantly to the development of Paul's ideas about resurrection, as seen in his extant letters.
Depicts and explains the development of Paul's resurrection theology
Contributes to studies on early Christian ritual by exploring the impact of ritual experience on Paul's theology
Provides a profound case study of the integration of the body and the mind, depicting the progression of Paul's resurrection theology as a process largely driven by experiential patterns
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Thinking Within The Body
Chapter 1. A Seed of Paul's Development: The Reversal Schema
Chapter 2. “We Will All Be Transformed”: Transformation at Resurrection
Chapter 3. “We All Are Being Transformed”: Experienced Transformation
Chapter 4. “Baptized into His Death”: The Convergence of Two Aspects of Transformation
Conclusion
Bibliography
Ancient Source Index
Author Index
Subject Index
[O]ffers a complex but fresh approach to analyzing the development of Paul's teaching about bodily resurrection.
- Title: The Impact of Bodily Experience on Paul’s Resurrection Theology
- Author: Kai-Hsuan Chang
- Publisher: T&T Clark
- Print Publication Date: 2021
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9780567700940, 9780567700957, 056770095X, 0567700941
- Resource ID: LLS:9780567700940
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-05-12T04:22:44Z
Kai-Hsuan Chang is assistant professor at China Evangelical Seminary, Taoyuan, Taiwan.