Felix Culpa: Ritual Failure and Theological Innovation in Early Christianity (Novum Testamentum, Supplements) - Hardcover

Smit, Peter-Ben

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ISBN 10: 9004460950 ISBN 13: 9789004460959

Verlag: Brill, 2021

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In Felix culpa: Ritual Failure and Theological Innovation in Early Christianity, Peter-Ben Smit argues that ritual developments were key to the development of early Christianity. Focusing on rituals that go wrong, he shows precisely how ritual infelicities are a catalyst for reflection upon ritual and their development in terms of their performance as well as the meaning attributed to them. Smit discusses texts from the Pauline epistles and the Gospel of Mark, and provides a chapter on Philo of Alexandria by way of contextualization in the Greco-Roman world. By stressing the importance of ritual, the present book invites a reconsideration of all too doctrinally focused approaches to early Christian communities and identities. It also highlights the embodied and performative character of what being in Christ amounted to two millennia ago.

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Peter-Ben Smit is Professor of Contextual Biblical Interpretation at the Vrije Universiteit (Amsterdam), Professor of Systematic Theology and Ecumenism at the University of Bern, Professor of Ancient Catholic Church Structures at Utrecht University and a Research Associate in the Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria.

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• Verlag: Brill
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2021
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 9004460950
• ISBN 13: 9789004460959
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 200
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