RT Article
T1 Babies and Building Blocks: A Re-constructive Reading of God’s Household in 1 Peter in light of the Absent Child
JF Biblical interpretation
VO 28
IS 3
SP 347
OP 370
A1 Lindeman Allen, Amy
LA English
PB Brill
YR 2020
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1700618687
AB 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.
K1 Haustafel
K1 childist
K1 Children
K1 household code
K1 Infants
K1 Interdependence
K1 Mutuality
K1 Patriarchy
DO 10.1163/15685152-00283P04