“Do you not know you are God’s temple?” : 1 Corinthians 3:9-17 and Paul’s relational anthropology

Quinn, J. Hunter

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“Do you not know you are God’s temple?” : 1 Corinthians 3:9-17 and Paul’s relational anthropology

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Quinn, J. Hunter. “do You Not Know You Are God’s Temple?” : 1 Corinthians 3:9-17 and Paul’s Relational Anthropology. rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/05820b33-7c4b-4e3b-9599-f8a76fc49504.

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Q. J. Hunter. “Do you not know you are God’s temple?” : 1 Corinthians 3:9-17 and Paul’s relational anthropology. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/05820b33-7c4b-4e3b-9599-f8a76fc49504

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Abstract

This thesis analyzes in three parts the temple metaphor of 1 Cor. 3:9-17 for Paul’s theology of relationships and, by extension, his relational anthropology. It makes use of the pneumatology of Volker Rabens and the anthropology of Mary Douglas in order to demonstrate how this metaphor depicts the Pauline self as constituted in and through relationships. The first part of this thesis discusses 1 Cor. 3:9-17 as a single metaphor with the Jerusalem temple as the understood referent. Further, I find that persons make up the entirety of this metaphorical temple. This part brings clarity to the metaphor prior to my application of Rabens and Douglas. The second part of this thesis uses Rabens’ pneumatology to argue that Paul’s relational anthropology as depicted in the metaphor preserves the self as a discreet entity while also showing how the self is constituted in and through relationships. By analyzing the interplay between divine grace and human agency in the metaphor, this thesis concludes that the enduring eschatological shape of the self is in some sense relationally-determined. The third part of this thesis employs Douglas’ structuralist methodology to show how the motif of temple holiness structures the embodied self in Christocentric relationships. Employing Douglas’ categories of restricted code to interpret the cultural sense of temples, rituals, ritual purity, and the presence of the divine, this thesis suggests that the notion of an embodied Christian habitus best reflects Paul’s anthropology in 1 Corinthians. Moreover, the concept of habitus explains how one who labors on the metaphorical temple according to the spirit of the world can harm the social order of the eschatological community, while one who labors on the structure according to the mind of Christ further inculcates Christ in others.

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