Christian Body, Christian Self
Concepts of Early Christian Personhood
contributor Robert S. Kinney and edited by Clare K. Rothschild and Trevor W. Thompson
Early Christian texts are replete with the language of body and self. Clearly, such concepts were important to their authors and audiences. Yet usage rarely makes sense across texts. Despite attempts to establish a single biblical or Christian vision of either body or self across texts, the evidence demonstrates plurality of opinion; and, reception history multiplies interpretations. Depending upon the particular anthropological-philosophical paradigm of the interpreter (e.g., Platonic, Cartesian), Christian texts reflect a number of views about the body and self. Today, scholarship on these concepts advances in many different directions. In addition to sophisticated new methods of drawing history-of-religions comparisons, scholars place early Christian texts in conversation with philosophy, psychology, political science, and developments in the hard sciences–in particular the neurosciences, sometimes all but doing away with the notion of self. Recent studies and monographs focus on the disabled body, the gendered body, the slave body, the martyr’s body, relevance of ancient scientific and medical treatises for understanding the body, the asexual body/self, embodied knowledge, the suffering self, and religion and the self. The essays in this volume individually and collectively participate in these ongoing discussions. They do not proceed with a uniform notion of either self or body, but recognize competition on the topics, ably captured by the variety of approaches to their meaning in antiquity and today, and offer nuanced analyses of texts and passages, highlighting individual perceptions of these crucial yet enigmatic concepts.
I. Introduction Clare K. Rothschild and Trevor W. Thompson : Status quaestionis : Christian Body, Christian Self II. Jewish Literature Karina Martin Hogan : The Mortal Body and the Earth in Ben Sira and the Book of the Watchers - Matthew Goff : Being Fleshly or Spiritual: Anthropological Reflection and Exegesis of Genesis 1.3 in 4QInstruction and First Corinthians - Alec J. Lucas : Distinct Portraits and Parallel Development of the Knowledge of God in Romans 1:18-32 and Wisdom of Solomon 13.15 III. Pauline Literature Troels Engberg-Pedersen : A Stoic Concept of the Person in Paul? From Galatians 5:17 to Romans 7:14-25 - Stefan Krauter : Is Romans 7:7-13 about akrasia? IV. Canonical Gospels and Acts Martin Meiser : Anthropologie im Markusevangelium V. Extra-canonical Gospels and Acts Manfred Lang : The Christian and the Roman Self: The Lukan Paul and a Roman Reading - Troy W. Martin : Clarifying a Curiosity: The Plural Bloods (???????) in John 1:13 - Richard I. Pervo : Identification Please: Aspects of Identity in Ancient Narrative - Janet E. Spittler : The Anthropology of the Acts of Thomas - Romulus D. Stefanut : From Logos to Mythos : The Apocalypse of Paul and Plato's Phaedo in Dialogue - Robert Matthew Calhoun : The Resurrection of the Flesh in 3 Corinthians VI. Later Witnesses Annette Bourland Huizenga : Epitomizing Virtue: Clothing the Christian Woman's Body - David Konstan : Torture and Identity: Paganism, Christianity, and Beyond - Fritz Graf : Apollo, Possession, and Prophecy VII. History of Interpretation John R. Levison : Assessing the Origins of Modern Pneumatology: The Life and Legacy of Hermann Gunkel
Clare K. Rothschild, Born 1964; 1986 BA University of California, Berkeley; 1992 M.T.S. Harvard University; 2003 PhD University of Chicago; currently Associate Professor of Theology at Lewis University, Romeoville, IL.Trevor W. Thompson, is Instructor of New Testament at Abilene Christian University.
- Contributions by Robert S Kinney
- Edited by Clare K Rothschild
- Edited by Trevor W Thompson
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