Argumentum ad Lunam: Pauline Discourse, "Double Death," and Competition on the Moon
This article asks what Paul’s claims about cosmology signify in terms of his competitive position on the nature and purpose of the moon. Specifically, in an age in which discourses and demonstrations involving the moon were rife, I argue that Paul is invoking principals shared by writers like Plutar...
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| Tipo di documento: | Elettronico Articolo |
| Lingua: | Inglese |
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2024
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Harvard theological review
Anno: 2024, Volume: 117, Fascicolo: 4, Pagine: 720-743 |
| Altre parole chiave: | B
Paul the Apostle
B Lucian B Early Christianity B Moon B Plutarch B Gender Studies B Cosmology B Stoicism |
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| Riepilogo: | This article asks what Paul’s claims about cosmology signify in terms of his competitive position on the nature and purpose of the moon. Specifically, in an age in which discourses and demonstrations involving the moon were rife, I argue that Paul is invoking principals shared by writers like Plutarch on the "double death" of the human being (first as soma on the earth, then as psyche/nous in orbit around and on the moon) and that he envisions an afterlife among the stars in pneumatic form that, to the degree it is anthropomorphic, is ideally male. I also posit that this aspect of Paul’s thought has been overlooked, in part due to the idiosyncratic-yet-pervasive translation of doxa in Paul as "glory" rather than in terms related to typologies and judgment, as it is elsewhere in Greek philosophical literature. |
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| ISSN: | 1475-4517 |
| Comprende: | Enthalten in: Harvard theological review
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0017816024000312 |