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Felix Culpa: Ritual Failure and Theological Innovation in Early Christianity

by Peter-Ben Smit

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  • Publisher: Brill

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In Felix culpa: Ritual Failure and Theological Innovation in Early Christianity, Peter-Ben Smit argues that ritual developments were key to the development of early Christianity. Focusing on rituals that go wrong, he shows precisely how ritual infelicities are a catalyst for reflection upon ritual and their development in terms of their performance as well as the meaning attributed to them. Smit discusses texts from the Pauline epistles and the Gospel of Mark, and provides a chapter on Philo of Alexandria by way of contextualization in the Greco-Roman world. By stressing the importance of ritual, the present book invites a reconsideration of all too doctrinally focused approaches to early Christian communities and identities. It also highlights the embodied and performative character of what being in Christ amounted to two millennia ago.
Felix Culpa: Ritual Failure and Theological Innovation in Early Christianity and Biblical Masculinities Foregrounded
Biblical Masculinities ForegroundedFelix Culpa: Ritual Failure and Theological Innovation in Early Christianity

  • Author

    Peter-Ben Smit

  • Book Format

    Hardcover

  • Publisher

    Brill

  • Published

    November 2021

  • ISBN

    9789004460959

  • ISBN-10

    9004460950

  • Eden Code

    5538472

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