The Scandal of Community
Pauline Factions and the Circulation of Grace
1st Edition
Published on 7. April 2021
266 pages
978-1-9787-8416-1 (ISBN)
Description
Taylor M. Weaver offers a provocative reading of Pauline community, focusing on social and historical readings of the Pauline collection, body metaphors, and socio-politics of the gift, through models and methods developed by critical theorists. Weaver pays attention to conceptual apparatuses revolving around gifting, community, and immunity found in the writings of Italian philosopher Roberto Esposito, augmenting common readings of the historical Paul, while also enriching philosophical co-optations of Paul. Using critical theories (revolving around munus/gift), Weaver unveils different gifting types, showing how these expand one's understanding of early Christian community. The study ends with a new exegesis of 2 Corinthians 8:1-15, illuminating the text through effective theoretical avenues. This book expands methodological borders, providing innovative models of Pauline Christianity, and developing new readings of community profitable to both New Testament studies and theory.
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04/2021
Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
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Taylor M. Weaver (PhD, University of Kent, UK) is a Pauline scholar who has published in the areas of New Testament, political theology, the reception of Paul, and continental philosophy.
Content
Part 1: The Espositoan Community
1. Esposito and the Contours of Communitas
2. Contemporary Orientations of Community
3. Neoliberal Communities: The Hobbesian Spectre
Part 2: Delegating a Space
4. Reading Paul through Distorted Optics
5. Pauline Community: Approximations
6. The Pauline Communitas: New Possibilities, Speculative Futures
1. Esposito and the Contours of Communitas
2. Contemporary Orientations of Community
3. Neoliberal Communities: The Hobbesian Spectre
Part 2: Delegating a Space
4. Reading Paul through Distorted Optics
5. Pauline Community: Approximations
6. The Pauline Communitas: New Possibilities, Speculative Futures
