Christ's body in Corinth :the politics of a metaphor /Yung Suk Kim.

Book

Community of Christ Library

Name/Title

Description

Introduction: The price of unity -- The body of Christ today -- Reading as a citizen of the world -- A few words about method -- Community as body -- Community in theological and historical approaches -- Sociological or social-scientific approaches -- The approach of the history-of-religions school -- Boundaries -- Identity -- Structure or power relationships -- The conception of community called for in our present context -- Community as the body of Christ -- The body of Christ as organic unity -- The body of Christ as corporate solidarity -- Christological approaches -- Summary and critique -- Conceiving the body of Christ in a cruciform reality -- Community in Christ -- An alternate reading of in Christ in 1 Corinthians -- In Christ as a modal relation : dying with Christ -- The body politic and the body of Christ -- The body politic in the Greco-Roman and ancient Jewish worlds -- The politics of the hegemonic body -- The body politic of the democratic-inclusive body -- Paul and the democratic-inclusive body -- The disembodiment of Christ in Corinth -- Divisions -- Sexual immorality -- Marriage-related matters -- Eating meat sacrificed to idols -- Rights of Paul -- Women's head covering -- The Lord's supper -- Resurrection -- The life of the body of Christ in 1 Corinthians -- Language for the body in 1 Corinthians -- An ethic of the christic body -- Tracing the christic body in 1 Corinthians -- Outline of the discursive figurative structure of 1 Corinthians -- 1:1-17 Paul, Apostle of Christ Jesus, and the Corinthians, sanctified in Christ Jesus -- 1:18-4:21 the cross as God's power, exemplified by the Corinthians and embodied by Paul -- 5:1-11:34 the Corinthians' failure to embody Christ crucified, Paul's exhortation to the Corinthians calling for participation in Christ crucified -- 12:1-15:11 exhortation : the Corinthian body as Christic embodiment -- 15:12-58 as Christ crucified was raised, so the crucified body of the Christians will be raised -- 16:1-24 conclusion -- The life of the Christic body in Corinth -- Practicing the diversity of Christ's body -- Diversity as discernment -- Diversity as balance -- Christ's body and multiculturalism. ix, 142 p. :ill. ;24 cm.

Book Details

Author

Kim, Yung Suk.

Place Published

City

Minneapolis

Date Published

circa 2008

Publication Subjects

Bible.--Corinthians, 1st--Criticism, interpretation, etc. Church--Biblical teaching. Jesus Christ--Mystical body--History of doctrines--Early church, ca. 30-600.

Call No.

BS2675.6 .C5 K56 2008

ISBN

9780800662851 (alk. paper), 0800662857 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2008011512

Notes

Bibliography Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 125-138) and index.