Three Ways to Imitate Paul in Late Antiquity: Ekstasis, Ekphrasis, Epektasis
Robert Orsi’s argument that religion, more than a system of "meaning making," is a "network of relationships between heaven and earth" helps us understand what is at stake in imitation for early Christians. The question for Orsi is not, "What does it mean to imitate Paul?&qu...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
[2021]
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Harvard theological review
Year: 2021, Volume: 114, Issue: 1, Pages: 96-117 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Paul Apostle
/ John, Chrysostomus 344-407
/ Mimesis
/ Late Antiquity
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| IxTheo Classification: | CB Christian life; spirituality HC New Testament KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity KAD Church history 500-900; early Middle Ages |
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Pseudo-dionysius
B Gregory of Nyssa B Mimesis B John Chrysostom B Imitation B Rhetoric |
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| Summary: | Robert Orsi’s argument that religion, more than a system of "meaning making," is a "network of relationships between heaven and earth" helps us understand what is at stake in imitation for early Christians. The question for Orsi is not, "What does it mean to imitate Paul?" as much as it is, "In what kind of relationship is one engaged when one imitates Paul?" Christians argue over both what to imitate (Who is Paul?) and how to imitate (How should Christians relate to Paul in order to be like him or to render him present?). The what has received lots of scholarly attention; this paper focuses on the how. I compare the range of possibilities of how to imitate Paul by focusing on three influential accounts of mimesis: Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite (ekstasis), John Chrysostom (ekphrasis), and Gregory of Nyssa (epektasis). |
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| ISSN: | 1475-4517 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Harvard theological review
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0017816021000079 |