Babies and Building Blocks: A Re-constructive Reading of God’s Household in 1 Peter in light of the Absent Child
This essay re-reads 1 Peter’s Haustafel from a childist perspective, concerned with children both absent and present. It re-imagines 1 Peter’s Haustafel as a model for the Christian family based on growth and interdependence, rather than power and submission. In this model, God is paterfamilias, mim...
| Published in: | Biblical interpretation |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
[2020]
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| In: |
Biblical interpretation
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Bible. Petrusbrief 1.
/ Child
/ Haustafel
/ Patriarchate
/ Pater familias
/ Metaphor
/ God
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| IxTheo Classification: | HC New Testament |
| Further subjects: | B
Patriarchy
B childist B Mutuality B household code B Infants B Interdependence B Children B Haustafel |
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| Summary: | This essay re-reads 1 Peter’s Haustafel from a childist perspective, concerned with children both absent and present. It re-imagines 1 Peter’s Haustafel as a model for the Christian family based on growth and interdependence, rather than power and submission. In this model, God is paterfamilias, mimicking patriarchy in order to bring about a reversal in which elders imitate infants. This is argued in three parts: (1) attending to children and the ideologies that govern their relationships; (2) uniting the metaphors of infants and building blocks; and (3) re-imagining an alternate model of household relationships. |
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| ISSN: | 1568-5152 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Biblical interpretation
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15685152-00283P04 |