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The Malady of the Christian Body: A Theological Exposition of Paul’s First Letter to the Corinthians, Volume 1 Kindle Edition
The manner in which Paul engages questions of factionalism, sexuality, legal conflict, idolatry, dress codes, and eating habits reveals that neither the malady he diagnoses nor the therapy he offers track the dominant accounts currently on offer of the malaise suffered by today's church. This volume depicts the Apostle as carefully examining the organic whole that is the body of Christ in order to detect obstacles to the healthy flow of powers that sustain its life. The therapy that is then offered comes by way of a redirection of the Corinthian believers' attention to the ways in which they can embrace God's active working among them to heal their broken unity.
This book breaks new ground in crossing and reconfiguring the traditional disciplinary boundaries between biblical studies, systematic theology, and theological ethics.
"Thick--that is the word that comes to mind for characterizing this extraordinary commentary. 'Thick' is sometimes associated with 'slow,' but I am using the term to indicate the richness of the theological readings of Paul offered in this book. I think they touch on every theological issue we confront today. As a result I cannot imagine another resource taking its place for many years."
--Stanley Hauerwas, Gilbert T. Rowe Emeritus Professor of Divinity and Law, Duke University
"While theological readings of Scripture often glide over the text, this one plunges into it. The authors' interpretations are sometimes controversial, often highly original, and always theologically rich and insightful. Most importantly, they invite the reader to participate in their own act and practice of reading 1 Corinthians from and for the church. It is an invitation any theologian or Christian ethicist--indeed, any Christian--would do well to accept."
--Gerald McKenny, Walter Professor of Theology, University of Notre Dame; author of The Analogy of Grace: Karl Barth's Moral Theology
"How are we to learn to hear Paul in such a way that we also may be convicted by his writings to the Corinthians? All too often our hermeneutical preliminaries, historical contextualizations, and efforts to find coherence serve as unconscious stratagems for evading the apostle's message. By helping us to learn to read Paul over against ourselves, Brian Brock and Bernd Wannenwetsch's immensely rewarding and illuminating commentary on 1 Corinthians points us the way to the Christ who is profoundly and truly for us."
--Robert Song, Durham University
Brian Brock is Reader in Moral and Practical Theology at the University of Aberdeen. He is the author of Singing the Ethos of God, Christian Ethics in a Technological Age, and most recently, Captive to Christ, Open to the World.
Bernd Wannenwetsch was Professor of Systematic Theology and Ethics at the University of Oxford, Chair in Theological Ethics at the University of Aberdeen and the president of the Society for the Study of Christian Ethics. His publications include Political Worship, Guter schneller Tod?, and Verlangen.
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- Publication dateNovember 30, 2016
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- Publisher : Cascade Books, an Imprint of Wipf and Stock Publishers (November 30, 2016)
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The result is both edifying and challenging. Their discussions of almost every passage are fresh; one finds Paul speaking to contemporary issues with surprising insight. At the same time, this is not a virtuoso effort--obviously they chose to write the commentary together, but they also did so in the company of many ancient and modern commentators on 1 Corinthians. Furthermore, Brock and Wannenwetsch engage the Greek text in a way that should satisfy the best of biblical scholars.
Throughout the commentary, Brock and Wannenwetsch challenge unthinking appropriations of scripture and of apostolic authority. They expose surface morality which takes the shape of taboos in Christian communities without calling into question the real authority of the Word of God. Instead of reading the epistle as "moralistic pedagogy," they seek to display the theologic at work in Paul's judgments, thus bringing the good news which Paul preached to bear on the particular maladies which afflict the churches today.
Their discussions of many passages are noteworthy. For instance, their exposition of the opening chapter of the letter highlights the particular form of quarrelling in which the Corinthians were engaged. It is not tension, or conflict itself which Paul was addressing, but the dividing of Christ into individual parties. Paul's response not only implies that Christ cannot be divided, but also that he cannot be divided from his body. There can be no individual faith in Christ which is not also ecclesial. This interpretation of Paul lends itself to an extended meditation on the problems which the Corinthian sects posed to the incarnated reality of Christian faith.
Brock and Wannenwetsch develop this interpretation in a number of highly interesting and insightful ways. For instance, their analysis of chastity and "porneia" in 1 Cor 7 deserves to be widely read. This is an original and illuminating exposition of chastity as a way of relating to the body which is an alternative to capitalist conceptions of "self-ownership." Chastity, they argue, partakes of an alternative ecclesial politics in which we come understand that we own our bodies in a non-proprietary fashion. Brock and Wannenwetsch thus make an important contribution to a "theology of the body" in these pages, in as much as they not only accept the claim that the "ensouled body is a person," but further add to this the idea of a non-proprietary ownership of the body. The malady which afflicts the churches in Paul's day and our own is the presumption that I own my body and can do with it what I please. The gospel which Paul preached liberates us from this presumption.
I eagerly await the publication of Part II of this commentary. All those interested in Christian ethics should read this commentary as a new proposal for doing Christian ethics in as much as seeks to root moral theology firmly in the attention to the Scriptures as our indispensable guide to doxological praxis. Furthermore, pastors and congregations preaching through 1 Corinthians will find Brock and Wannenwetsch's commentary an invaluable companion.