Joshua Rice

Paul and Patronage (eBook, PDF)

The Dynamics of Power in 1 Corinthians

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The question of how leadership and authority functioned in the Pauline church remains one of the most polarizing issues in New Testament scholarship today. On the one side are egalitarian and counterimperial readings that stake their interpretation of the liberating gospel upon a depiction of the Pauline church as radically countercultural with regard to leadership and authority. On the other side are authoritarian readings that just as easily conceive of Paul as fully embedded within the cultural conceptions and structures of leadership and authority in vogue across the Greco-Roman world. This study employs social-science criticism to construct a model of ancient patronage conventions and power-exchange dynamics in the Greco-Roman world, and this model is then applied to 1 Corinthians. This study finds that when Paul addresses his own apostolic relationship to the Corinthians, he tends toward reinscribing traditional hierarchies, but that when Paul addresses relationships between participants of the Corinthian assembly, he tends toward overturning them.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wipf and Stock Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 206
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781725247932
• Artikelnr.: 60108685

Autorenporträt

Joshua Rice, Ph.D., is the author of Paul and Patronage: The Dynamics of Power in 1 Corinthians (Pickwick, 2013), The Jewish Centaur: Adventures in Pentecostal Spirituality (Cascade, 2015) and The Patriarch: Essays from the Middle (Resource Publications, 2023). He holds degrees from Lee University, Columbia Theological Seminary, and the Lutheran School of Theology.