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Sex, Christ, and Embodied Cognition

Author : Robert H. von Thaden Jr.

Publisher : SBL Press

Page : 358 pages

File Size : 26,49 MB

Release : 2017-06-13

Category : Religion

ISBN : 0884142272

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A sociorhetorical analysis of First Corinthians Robert H. von Thaden Jr.'s sociorhetorical analysis examines Paul's construction of sexual Christian bodies in First Corinthians by utilizing new insights from conceptual integration (blending) theory about the embodied processes of meaning making. Paul's teaching about proper sexual behavior in this letter is best viewed as an example of early Christian wisdom discourse. This discourse draws upon apocalyptic and priestly cognitive frames to increase the rhetorical force of the argument. Reading Paul's argument through the lens of rhetorical invention, von Thaden demonstrates that Paul first attempts to show the Corinthians why sexual immorality is the worst of all bodily sins before shifting rhetorical focus to explain to them how they can best avoid this infraction against the body of Christ. Features: A programmatic application of conceptual integration theory using a sociorhetorical mode of interpretation A vivid account of key aspects of conceptual integration theory and how they function in sociorhetorical interpretation A detailed application of these strategies to interpret 1 Corinthians 1-4; 6:12-7:7



Sexual Virtue

Author : Richard W. McCarty

Publisher : SUNY Press

Page : 308 pages

File Size : 46,4 MB

Release : 2015-01-08

Category : Religion

ISBN : 1438454295

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Uses virtue ethics to offer a sexual ethics inclusive of LGBT and straight people, one that challenges the longstanding procreative patriarchal norm. Richard W. McCarty offers a compassionate and inclusive conception of sexual virtue, one that liberates Christians from traditional patriarchal requirements for heterosexuality, marriage, and procreation. Daring to depart from ongoing debates about what Aristotle or Aquinas had to say, this book sets a new course centered on virtue ethics. It employs new insights from the sciences, biblical scholarship, analyses of church traditions, and revisionist natural law thinking. Eschewing simple deconstruction of traditional Christian norms for sexual morality, McCarty offers constructive ideas about what might count as real human goods for people in a wide variety of sexual relationships. Recreation, relational intimacy, and selective acts of procreation are three ends of sexual virtue that promote human happiness and can be appreciated in a broad Christian framework. While primarily referencing the Roman Catholic intellectual tradition, McCarty’s work is also vital and accessible to those from Protestant backgrounds. Addressed to LGBT and straight readers, Sexual Virtue provides a compassionate sexual ethics for our time.



The Oxford Handbook of New Testament, Gender, and Sexuality

Author : Benjamin H. Dunning

Publisher : Oxford University Press

Page : 733 pages

File Size : 17,2 MB

Release : 2019-10-10

Category : Bibles

ISBN : 019021340X

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Over several decades, scholarship in New Testament and early Christianity has drawn attention both to the ways in which ancient Mediterranean conceptions of embodiment, sexual difference, and desire were fundamentally different from modern ones and also to important lines of genealogical connection between the past and the present. The result is that the study of "gender" and "sexuality" in early Christianity has become an increasingly complex undertaking. This is a complexity produced not only by the intricacies of conflicting historical data, but also by historicizing approaches that query the very terms of analysis whereby we inquire into these questions in the first place. Yet at the same time, recent work on these topics has produced a rich and nuanced body of scholarly literature that has contributed substantially to our understanding of early Christian history and also proved relevant to ongoing theological and social debates. The Oxford Handbook of Gender and Sexuality in the New Testament provides a roadmap to this lively scholarly landscape, introducing both students and other scholars to the relevant problems, debates, and issues. Leading scholars in the field offer original contributions by way of synthesis, critical interrogation, and proposals for future questions, hypotheses, and research trajectories.



Exploring Philemon

Author : Roy R. Jeal

Publisher : SBL Press

Page : 262 pages

File Size : 28,65 MB

Release : 2015-10-31

Category : Religion

ISBN : 088414092X

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A new, sociorhetorical interpretation of the Letter to Philemon Exploring Philemon shows how this letter entered the world of the ancient Mediterranean and the early church with a dramatic and powerful rhetorical force by analyzing the range of textures interwoven with each other to produce a profound effect on an early Christian (Philemon) and on the church that met in his home. It demonstrates that many striking and subtle features work together to present a rhetorical argument that the new Christian society must be one of freedom, brotherhood, and partnership not just for the powerful, but for all. Features: An analysis of the visual imagery of the letter Application of up-to-date rhetorical, sensory-aesthetic, and intertextual interpretive methods Use of Social and cultural, ideological, and theological strategies



The Prophetic Body

Author : Anathea E Portier-Young

Publisher : Oxford University Press

Page : 345 pages

File Size : 45,88 MB

Release : 2024

Category : Religion

ISBN : 019760496X

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Modern study of biblical prophecy frequently defines prophecy as a message from God and has focused almost exclusively on prophets' words. But prophecy was always also embodied. Anathea E. Portier-Young insists on the synergy of word and body in biblical prophecy. Prophets did more than reveal knowledge: the prophetic body connected God and people, making them present to one another, channeling divine power, traveling between realms. Drawing insights from disciplines ranging from neurobiology to cultural studies, the author examines stories of prophetic commissioning, bodily transformation, asceticism and ecstasy, mobility and immobility, affect and emotion, revealing the body's centrality to prophetic mediation.



Conceptual Blending in Early Christian Discourse

Author : Aleksander Gomola

Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Page : 244 pages

File Size : 13,6 MB

Release : 2018-03-19

Category : Religion

ISBN : 311058297X

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Cognitive linguists and biblical and patristic scholars have recently given more attention to the presence of conceptual blends in early Christian texts, yet there has been so far no comprehensive study of the general role of conceptual blending as a generator of novel meanings in early Christianity as a religious system with its own identity. This monograph points in that direction and is a cognitive linguistic exploration of pastoral metaphors in a wide range of patristic texts, presenting them as variants of THE CHURCH IS A FLOCK network. Such metaphors or blends, rooted in the Bible, were used by Patristic writers to conceptualize a great number of particular notions that were constitutive for the early church, including the responsibilities of the clergy and the laity, morality and penance, church unity, baptism and soteriology. This study shows how these blends became indispensable building blocks of a new religious system and explains the role of conceptual blending in this process. The book is addressed to biblical and patristic scholars interested in a new, unifying perspective for various strands of early Christian thought and to cognitive linguists interested in the role of conceptual integration in religious language. Produced with the support of the Faculty of Philology, Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland.



Sex, Christ, and Embodied Cognition

Author : Robert H. Von Thaden

Publisher : Emory Studies in Early Christi

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 29,37 MB

Release : 2012

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 9781905679188

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This socio-rhetorical analysis examines Paul's construction of sexual Christian bodies in 1 Corinthians by utilizing new insights from conceptual integration theory (blending theory) about the embodied processes of meaning making. Paul's teaching about proper sexual behavior in this letter is most profitably viewed as an example of early Christian didactic wisdom discourse. This discourse, moreover, draws upon resources available in apocalyptic and priestly cognitive frames to increase the rhetorical force of the argument. Reading Paul's argument through the lens of rhetorical invention, the author demonstrates that Paul first attempts to show the Corinthians why sexual immorality is the worst of all bodily sins before shifting rhetorical focus to explain to them how they can best avoid this infraction against the body of Christ.



Language, Cognition, and Biblical Exegesis

Author : Ronit Nikolsky

Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing

Page : 259 pages

File Size : 42,12 MB

Release : 2019-06-13

Category : Religion

ISBN : 1350078123

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What role do texts play in religious practice? What is the relationship between these texts and cognition? Are some texts more successful because they are better adapted to our cognitive structures? Why is biblical interpretation necessary, and what is the cognitive process behind it? This book considers such questions, and fills the gap in research on religious texts and narratives in the cognitive science of religion. The study of ancient religions and biblical studies are dominated by textual evidence. However, the cognitive science of religion is lacking significant research on the language and textual interpretation of this literature. This book presents a systematic attempt to redefine the interpretation of religious texts in a cognitive framework, providing concrete textual analysis on a broad selection of biblical passages. It explores the ways that cognitive approaches to language and textual interpretation expand the disciplines of the cognitive science of religion and biblical studies. This book brings together methodology from the cognitive sciences, linguistics, philology, biblical studies, and religious studies, to offer a new perspective for biblical studies and cognitive sciences. It presents a renewed vision of textual interpretation - one that aligns hermeneutical reflection with our cognitive capacities.



Jesus and Mary Reimagined in Early Christian Literature

Author : Vernon K. Robbins

Publisher : SBL Press

Page : 363 pages

File Size : 20,8 MB

Release : 2015-03-23

Category : Religion

ISBN : 1628370645

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Explore the diverse character of emerging Christian narratives This book presents essays that show how prophetic and priestly emphases in Luke and Acts, and emphasis on Jesus’s existence prior to creation in the Gospel of John, are reworked in some second- and third-century Christian literature. Early Christians interpreted and expressed the storylines of Jesus, Mary, and other important figures in ways that created new images and stories. Contributors show the effect of including rhetography, the rhetoric of a text that prompts images and pictures in the mind of a hearer or reader, in interpretation of texts. Features: Readings that attempt to account for the development of richly creative and complicated early Christian traditions Essays bridging New Testament studies and interpretation of Early Christian literature Interpretations that integrate social and rhetorical interpretations



Words of Faith

Author : Byrne, Brendan J., SJ

Publisher : Paulist Press

Page : 346 pages

File Size : 12,29 MB

Release : 2023

Category : Religion

ISBN : 1587688565

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This work offers over 100 concise discussions of key Pauline words and concepts. Its primary focus lies on the seven undisputed letters, though material in the remaining letters traditionally attributed to Paul, especially Ephesians and Colossians, while treated separately, is not neglected. While accuracy has required reference to the relevant Greek words in each case, the use of transliteration renders the work accessible to nonspecialists and students as well to established scholars. Each entry is completed with an up to date indication of further reading in the area concerned. Compiled from a distinctly theological perspective and the product of over five decades of research and teaching in Pauline studies, the vocabulary is an indispensable resource for scholar and student alike.