Soziale Schichtung in der korinthischen Gemeinde. Ein Beitrag zur Soziologie des hellenistischen Urchristentums

Theißen, Gerd

doi:10.1515/zntw.1974.65.3-4.232

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“…Biblical scholars and theologians have explored the question of the nature of the meal thoroughly. From the mid-1970s to the early-1980s, Gerd Theissen (Theissen, 1974;Theissen, 1982) popularized interpreting the ecclesial conflicts in the Corinth body through the use of socio-rhetorical criticism. His reflections culminated in his book, Essays on Corinth: The Social Setting of Pauline Christianity.…”

Section: The "Body Of Christ" In Corinth Socializing Dynamics and The Eucharistmentioning

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Keeping the Feast: The Socializing Dynamics of the Eucharist, 1 Corinthians 11:17-34, and Enabling Boundaries for Individuals with Disabilities^#

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2021

Journal of Disability & Religion

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Faithfully participating in the Eucharist has been a struggle for the body of Christ since the formation of the Church . According to Paul, the Eucharist, as a cruciform meal was intended to perform socializing dynamics that pushed against rather than reinforced social fragmentation and marginalization within the Corinthian body (Gerd Theissen and Mark T. Finney). The meal offered the church in Corinth a way to enable boundaries by giving the church a cruciform location for its identity recognition, moral formation, and missional vocation (Yung Suk-Kim, Matthew Meyer Boulton, and Joseph H. Hellerman). Like the church in Corinth, the late modern church continues to struggle with faithfully "keeping the feast. " One example of this struggle that this paper explores is the tension that exists between many church's practices of the Eucharist and the inclusion of individuals with disabilities. The late modern church's struggle with ableism has ancient roots. Some argue (Saul M. Olyan) that it is present even within the biblical data itself, while others (Amos Yong) argue that ableism is caused by misinterpretations of the biblical data from "normate perspectives" which exclude disability as normal and therefore give way to the stigmatization and marginalization of individuals with disabilities in the church. I argue that when Scripture is read as a whole it offers a more hopeful picture for the inclusion of individuals with disabilities, particularly when it is read in light of the cruciform arc of the redemptive story which is symbolized in the Eucharist meal (Nancy Eiesland, Grant Macaskill, and Edward Foley). 1 Corinthians 11:17-34, with its cruciform picture of the Eucharist feast, offers the late modern church a heuristic model for how to read the biblical data to enable boundaries for individuals with disabilities.

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Section: The "Body Of Christ" In Corinth Socializing Dynamics and The Eucharistmentioning

confidence: 99%

Keeping the Feast: The Socializing Dynamics of the Eucharist, 1 Corinthians 11:17-34, and Enabling Boundaries for Individuals with Disabilities^#

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2021

Journal of Disability & Religion

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“…Such a reading of 1.26 nicely fits Theissen’s identification of social conflict arising from the mixing of different classes (cf. Theissen 1974). However, two problems arise in such a reading.…”

Section: Reassessment Of Early Christian Socio-economic Analysis and mentioning

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Roman Diet and Meat Consumption: Reassessing Elite Access to Meat in 1 Corinthians 8 and 10

Tite

2019

Journal for the Study of the New Testament

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A persistent exegetical tradition exists linking the Pauline controversy over the consumption of idol meat in the Corinthian correspondence to social and economic assumptions about the Roman world. Specifically, there is the assumption that access to meat was limited to the elite within the Roman world. According to this exegetical tradition, the lower classes only had access to meat through public religious festivals or as derivative through cultic sacrifice by means of the marketplace, resulting in the view that non-elites were sustained on a diet of legumes, grains and wine. Roman access to meat along such class demarcations, furthermore, is founded upon an economic dichotomy of elite and non-elite. This article challenges these social assumptions regarding meat consumption in, especially, Corinth by engaging recent scholarship that re-evaluates Roman diet in regard to access to meat and other animal products. Specifically, methods in archaeological science (especially stable isotope analysis) are used to supplement literary reassessments. What arises is a new picture of Roman diet, wherein meat consumption was not limited to the elite, but was prevalent in nearly all levels of Roman society. With this fresh perspective on Roman dietary practices, Paul’s comments in 1 Corinthians 8 and 10 must be re-evaluated.

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“…To assist in the analysis of Paul's attempts to mark out boundaries between church and household and to understand thereby his sense of place, as well as that (or those) of the Corinthians, we have as yet surprisingly little New Testament scholarship apart from the studies of Wayne Meeks, 2 GerdTheissen, 3 and, most recently, Elizabeth Fiorenza. 4 However, we do have a long tradition of study of boundary formation in the literature of the social sciences and, in particular, that of social anthropology.…”

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Paul's Sense of Place: an Anthropological Approach to Community Formation in Corinth

Barton¹

1986

New Testam. Stud.

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Recent scholarly study of the early Christian gatherings (or ‘churches’) has rightly emphasized their indebtedness to the household model of association. One only has to think of the use of the house as a place of meeting, the terminology of paternalism and brotherhood, the conversion of whole households, the praise accorded to the practice of hospitality and the endorsement given to contemporary marital and household ethics in the New Testament writings.

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Soziale Schichtung in der korinthischen Gemeinde. Ein Beitrag zur Soziologie des hellenistischen Urchristentums

Cited by 19 publications

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Keeping the Feast: The Socializing Dynamics of the Eucharist, 1 Corinthians 11:17-34, and Enabling Boundaries for Individuals with Disabilities^#

Keeping the Feast: The Socializing Dynamics of the Eucharist, 1 Corinthians 11:17-34, and Enabling Boundaries for Individuals with Disabilities^#

Roman Diet and Meat Consumption: Reassessing Elite Access to Meat in 1 Corinthians 8 and 10

Paul's Sense of Place: an Anthropological Approach to Community Formation in Corinth

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Soziale Schichtung in der korinthischen Gemeinde. Ein Beitrag zur Soziologie des hellenistischen Urchristentums

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Keeping the Feast: The Socializing Dynamics of the Eucharist, 1 Corinthians 11:17-34, and Enabling Boundaries for Individuals with Disabilities#

Keeping the Feast: The Socializing Dynamics of the Eucharist, 1 Corinthians 11:17-34, and Enabling Boundaries for Individuals with Disabilities#

Roman Diet and Meat Consumption: Reassessing Elite Access to Meat in 1 Corinthians 8 and 10

Paul's Sense of Place: an Anthropological Approach to Community Formation in Corinth

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