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Robert H. von Thaden, Jr.
Sex, Christ, and Embodied Cognition
Paul's Wisdom for Corinth
This socio-rhetorical analysis examines Paul's construction of
sexual Christian bodies in 1 Corinthians by utilizing new insights from
conceptual integration theory (blending theory) about the embodied
processes of meaning making. Paul's teaching about proper sexual
behavior in this letter is most profitably viewed as an example of early
Christian didactic wisdom discourse. This discourse, moreover, draws
upon sources available in apocalyptic and priestly cognitive frames to
increase the rhetorical force of the argument.
Reading Paul's argument through the lens of rhetorical invention,
the author demonstrates that Paul first attempts to show the Corinthians
why sexual immorality is the worst of all bodily sins before shifting
rhetorical focus to explain to them how they can best avoid this
infraction against the body of Christ.
Robert H. von Thaden,
Jr., Ph.D. 2007, Emory
University, is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Mercyhurst
University in Erie, Pennsylvania. He is an active member of the Rhetoric
of Religious Antiquity group and the Cognitive Linguistics in Biblical
Studies section of the Society of Biblical Literature.
Emory Studies in
Early Christianity
ISBN 978 1 905679 188 (ESEC, 16) xii + 346pp. Pbk. UK £26.95/
Europe £27.95/ ROW £29.95
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