Love is the rubric: a cultic commentary on 1 Corinthians

Daniel Patrick McGeachy

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Love is the rubric: a cultic commentary on 1 Corinthians

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Daniel Patrick McGeachy. Love Is the Rubric: a Cultic Commentary On 1 Corinthians. San Francisco Theological Seminary. rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/79e36205-24ee-457b-99c2-46f6a9c678c7.

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D. P. Mcgeachy. Love is the rubric: a cultic commentary on 1 Corinthians. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/79e36205-24ee-457b-99c2-46f6a9c678c7

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Daniel Patrick McGeachy. Love Is the Rubric: a Cultic Commentary On 1 Corinthians. San Francisco Theological Seminary. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/79e36205-24ee-457b-99c2-46f6a9c678c7.

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Daniel Patrick McGeachy

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This study seeks to discern what we can know about the Corinthian Christians' worship. Every portion of the letter is squeezed for every inference that can be drawn as to 1st century cultic practice which can be translated into our contemporary liturgy. Directions, examples, implications, and first principles drawn from the text of 1 Corinthians are conjoined by the author with the contemporary church at worship. He then describes what we may do as contemporary Protestants to recapture something of the New Testament fervor. The findings are: 1) 1 Corinthians is a unity, built around the central theme of the church's need to express its joy in the gospel as it upbuilds itself in love; 2) The great hymns to love (13) and resurrection (15) are not extraneous additions, but central expressions of that underlying message; 3) If we are to rediscover this, it is clear that we must build on that same foundation, to wait for and encourage each other, to make room for great difference of taste and doctrine, and to discover our unity in the resurrection. Decency and order may be the necessary machinery for carrying out the task, but our business is joy, and the rubric is love.

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