The Ritualized Revelation of the Messianic Age (Library of New Testament Studies | LNTS)

by Stephen Richard Turley

Publisher:

Bloomsbury

, 2015

Overview

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.

Key Features

• Detailed survey of the history of research
• Extensive indexes & bibliography
• New insights into the text of Galatians and 1 Corinthians

Contents

• Part I History of Research: A Ritual Reading of Paul
  • Ritual Studies and Pauline Scholarship
• Part II Paul and Ritual Washings
  • Ritual Washing in Galatians: Time, Body and Social Order
  • Baptism, Ethics and the Eschatological Body: 1 Corinthians 6.11
  • Baptism and the Spirit: 1 Corinthians 12.13
  • Paul and Ritual Washings: Conclusions
• Part III Paul and Ritual Meals
  • The Antiochene Meals: Embodying the 'Truth of the Gospel'
  • The Logos of the Lord's Supper: 1 Corinthians 8-10
  • Paul and Ritual Meals: Conclusions
  • A Ritual Reading of Paul: Conclusions

Top Highlights

“social argument (the effect that such meals have on fellow believers” (Page 135)

“Thus, baptism is appropriated didactically, as a ‘celebration of learning” (Page 9)

Product Details

• Title: The Ritualized Revelation of the Messianic Age: Washings and Meals in Galatians and 1 Corinthians
• Author: Stephen Richard Turley
• Series: Library of New Testament Studies
• Volume: 544
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Print Publication Date: 2015
• Logos Release Date: 2017
• Pages: 224
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Bible. N.T. Galatians › Criticism, interpretation, etc; Bible. N.T. 1 Corinthians › Criticism, interpretation, etc; Baptism › Biblical teaching; Lord’s Supper › Biblical teaching; Ritual › Biblical teaching; Rites and ceremonies › Biblical teaching; Ritualism › Biblical teaching
• ISBNs: 9780567663856, 9780567663870, 9780567683052, 056766385X, 0567663876, 0567683052
• Resource ID: LLS:RTLZDRVLTNMSSNG
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T02:49:37Z

About Stephen Richard Turley

Stephen Richard Turley teaches Theology, Greek, and Rhetoric at Tall Oaks Classical School in New Castle, USA, and is professor of fine arts at Eastern University.