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

Format:

Book

Thesis/Dissertation

Author/Creator:

Russell, A. Sue, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible. New Testament--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bible.

Bible. New Testament.

Church history--Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.

Church history.

Church history--Primitive and early church.

Physical Description:

xiv, 244 pages ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Pre-Constantine Christian communities

Place of Publication:

Eugene, Oregon : Pickwick Publications, [2019]

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.

Notes:

"This book is a revision of the dissertation ... UCLA ..."--Page xiii.

Ph.D. UCLA

Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-244).

ISBN:

9781532644740

1532644744

9781532644757

1532644752

OCLC:

1132243607

Publisher Number:

99983747507