Turley begins by surveying the history of the interface between
ritual studies and Pauline scholarship, identifying the scholarly
gaps in both method and conclusions and a ritual theory adequate to
address such gaps. The focus of the work is then on the two rituals
that identified the Pauline communities: ritual washings and ritual
meals. Turley explores Galatians and 1 Corinthians, two letters
that present the richest spread of evidence pertinent to ritual
theory. By exploring Paul's reference to ritual washings and meals
with a heuristic use of ritual theory, Turley concludes that
rituals in early Christianity were inherently revelatory, in that
they revealed the dawning of the messianic age through the bodies
of the ritual participants. This bodily revelation established both
a distinctly Christian ethic and a distinctly Christian social
space by which such an ethical identity might be identified and
sustained.
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