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In the world but not of the world : the liminal life of pre-Constantine Christian communities / A. Sue Russell.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Eugene, Oregon : Pickwick Publications, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 244 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781532644764
  • 1532644760
Other title:
  • Pre-Constantine Christian communities
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: In the world but not of the world.DDC classification:
  • 270.1 23
LOC classification:
  • BR170 .R87 2019eb
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  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Understanding early Christian communities -- Liminality, structure, and anti-structure -- Liminality, Jesus, and the kingdom of God -- Liminal community in Acts -- Liminality and Pauline communities -- Liminality in transition: post-Pauline communities -- The end of ancient Christianity.
Summary: There has been much discussion of two dimensions of the kingdom of God in scholarship: the temporal (already/not yet) and the embodied (spirit/flesh). Russell proposes that there is a third parallel dimension, a social dimension. Using Victor Turner's concepts of structure, antistructure, and liminality, Russell explores how these concepts are consistently expressed in Jesus' teaching, in Paul's writing, and through the writers of the second and third centuries. She demonstrates how, from the very beginning of the Jesus movement, Christ followers were unique, not because their members were to live liminal lives apart from structure, but because they lived out new antistructural relationships within existing structures and thus transformed them. They lived liminally within their structure. -- Provided by publisher, page 4 of cover.

Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, Los Angeles, 2013.

There has been much discussion of two dimensions of the kingdom of God in scholarship: the temporal (already/not yet) and the embodied (spirit/flesh). Russell proposes that there is a third parallel dimension, a social dimension. Using Victor Turner's concepts of structure, antistructure, and liminality, Russell explores how these concepts are consistently expressed in Jesus' teaching, in Paul's writing, and through the writers of the second and third centuries. She demonstrates how, from the very beginning of the Jesus movement, Christ followers were unique, not because their members were to live liminal lives apart from structure, but because they lived out new antistructural relationships within existing structures and thus transformed them. They lived liminally within their structure. -- Provided by publisher, page 4 of cover.

Understanding early Christian communities -- Liminality, structure, and anti-structure -- Liminality, Jesus, and the kingdom of God -- Liminal community in Acts -- Liminality and Pauline communities -- Liminality in transition: post-Pauline communities -- The end of ancient Christianity.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-244).

Print version record.