The Liminal Spirit: Ritual Experience, Ritual Initiation in Luke and Paul

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· 발행기관 : 한세대학교 영산신학연구소
· 수록지 정보 : 영산신학저널 / 45권 / 107 ~ 142페이지
· 저자명 : 데이비드 J. 맥콜로

초록

This article is divided into two sections. The first employs literary, discourse analysis and narratological approaches to demonstrate that, contrary to widely received thought, Luke prescribes a coherent and internally consistent model of Christian initiation. The distinctive methodological combination addresses a problem long plaguing Lukan studies, namely, how to disambiguate between what is merely incidental to the story and what represents the implied author’s ideology. The resultant data is discussed in terms of anthropological categories.
The second section addresses the problem of reconciling the two apparently conflicting data sets of Luke (who seems to show ‘Christians’ without the Spirit) and Paul (who claimed that there were no Christians without the Spirit). Paul predicated his statements that possession of the Spirit was the universal marker of Christian identity upon the liminal ritual process that Luke both describes and prescribes. The individuals that Luke genuinely shows without the Spirit are in a liminal state, they are initiates in the process of becoming part of the people of God, a process that involves both water baptism and Spirit reception (a.k.a., Spirit baptism), and a process that entails both a horizontal dimension (the initiate relative to the group) and a vertical dimension (the initiate relative to God).

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