Christ's body in Corinth : The Politics of a metaphor

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... Full description

Main Author:	Kim, Yung Suk
Published:	Minneapolis, Minnesota : Fortress Press, 2008
Series:	Paul in critical contexts
Subjects:	BIBLE.N.T. - CORINTHIANS, 1st - CRITICISM, INTERPRETATION, ETC. CHURCH - BIBLICAL TEACHING.
Online Access:	Full text - Book opens through link in DTL
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Summary:	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
Item Description:	Includes Index and Bibliographical References.
Physical Description:	eBook
ISBN:	9781451420456

Christ's body in Corinth : The Politics of a metaphor

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