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Christ's Body in Corinth

The Politics of a Metaphor
  • ISBN-13: 9781451488067
  • Publisher: 1517 MEDIA
    Imprint: FORTRESS PRESS
  • By Yung Suk Kim
  • Price: AUD $62.99
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  • Local release date: 01/04/2014
  • Format: Paperback (229.00mm X 152.00mm) 152 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: New Testaments [HRCF2]Biblical studies & exegesis [HRCG]
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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.
Yung Suk Kim (PhD, Vanderbilt University) is associate professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at Samuel DeWitt Proctor School of Theology, Virginia Union University, in Richmond, Virginia. Kim is editor of the Journal of Bible and Human Transformation. Most recently, he received a presidential citation for outstanding service and unselfish commitment from Virginia Union University.
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