Ritual and Religious Experience in Early Christianities
The Spirit In Between
by David John McCollough
Paperback (Published)
(September 2022)
ISBN: 9783161618338
9.13 x 6.1 inches
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In this volume, David John McCollough challenges the common assumptions that Paul thought the Spirit was communicated through water baptism, that ‘justification’ was non-experiential and unrelated to ritual, that Luke was incoherent or a poor editor, and that water baptism was the cardinal initiation rite among early Christianities.
In this volume, David John McCollough offers a narratological, discourse analysis, and literary exegesis of texts in Paul and Luke-Acts, followed by interpretation with social anthropological approaches. The author challenges common assumptions about Paul, such as that Paul thought the spirit to be communicated through water baptism, or the notion that ‘justification’ was non-experiential and unrelated to ritual. He refutes the view that Luke was either incoherent or unconcerned or a poor editor of sources regarding early Christian initiation practices and questions the belief that water baptism was the cardinal initiation rite among early Christianities. He instead argues that spirit possession marked by dissociation and glossolalia was the cardinal initiation ritual for Pauline and Lukan communities.
- By (author) David John McCollough
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