In the World but Not of the World
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In the World but Not of the World

The Liminal Life of Pre-Constantine Christian Communities

  1. 258 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

In the World but Not of the World

The Liminal Life of Pre-Constantine Christian Communities

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Figures and Tables
  3. Preface
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Understanding Early Christian Communities
  6. Liminality, Structure, and Anti-Structure
  7. Liminality, Jesus, and the Kingdom of God
  8. Liminal Community in Acts
  9. Liminality and Pauline Communities
  10. Liminality in Transition: Post-Pauline Communities
  11. The End of Ancient Christianity
  12. Bibliography