Ethnicity, Social Identity, and the Transposable Body of Christ
This essay attends to the relationship between our ethnic, social, and cultural identities, and the creation of the new communal identity embodied in the Christian community. Drawing upon six New Testament texts – Ephesians 2:11–22; Galatians 3:27–28; 1 Corinthians 7:17–24 and 10:17; 1 Peter 2:9–11;...
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| Medienart: | Elektronisch Aufsatz |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Brill
2017
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Mission studies
Jahr: 2017, Band: 34, Heft: 2, Seiten: 220-245 |
| normierte Schlagwort(-folgen): | B
Ethnische Identität
/ Kulturelle Identität
/ Soziale Identität
/ Christianisierung
/ Identität
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Religionssoziologie; Religionspolitik CA Christentum RJ Mission; Missionswissenschaft |
| weitere Schlagwörter: | B
Ethnicity
social identity
church
christology
mission
witness
new creation
culture
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| Zusammenfassung: | This essay attends to the relationship between our ethnic, social, and cultural identities, and the creation of the new communal identity embodied in the Christian community. Drawing upon six New Testament texts – Ephesians 2:11–22; Galatians 3:27–28; 1 Corinthians 7:17–24 and 10:17; 1 Peter 2:9–11; and Revelation 21:24–26 – it is argued that the creation of a new and prime identity in Christ does not abrogate other creaturely identities, even as it calls for the removal of such as boundary markers. Catholicity, in other words, is intrinsically related to the most radical particularity, and demands an ongoing work of discernment and of judgement vis-à-vis the gospel itself. Those baptized into Christ are now to live in the reality of Christ who is both the boundary and center of their existence, a boundary which includes all humanity in its cultural, ethnic, gendered, social and historical particularities. |
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| ISSN: | 1573-3831 |
| Enthält: | In: Mission studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15733831-12341503 |