Christ's Body in Corinth: The Politics of a Metaphor [Kindle Edition]

Yung Suk Kim (Author)

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Review

Although much has been written on the Pauline notion of the "body of Christ," this contribution by Presbyterian scholar Kim offers a thoughtful and provocative insight worth considering.  --Donald Senior, The Bible Today (added by author)

Product Description

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.

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Product Details

• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 2576 KB
• Publisher: Fortress Press (August 1, 2008)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
• Language: English
• ASIN: B001OI1WNQ
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #110,129 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
  • #56 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Nonfiction > Religion & Spirituality > Christianity > Reference > Criticism & Interpretation > New Testament

More About the Author

Yung Suk Kim is Assistant Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at Samuel DeWitt Proctor School of Theology, Virginia Union University, in Richmond, Virginia. He is the author of "Christ's Body in Corinth: The Politics of a Metaphor" (2008) and "A Theological Introduction to Paul's Letters" (2011). He is editor of the Journal of Bible and Human Transformation. For more information, visit http://www.youaregood.com