Taufrituale im frühen Christentum und in der Alten Kirche. Historische und ritualwissenschaftliche Perspektiven

Strecker, Christian

doi:10.1515/9783110247534.1383

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“…(Smith 1990:34). Also the encompassing overview of the discussion concerning early Christian initiation rites offered by Strecker (2011Strecker ( :1420 notes the necessity to take ritual seriously as such, rather than as a way of expressing dogma in a different way; the movement is rather the other way around; therefore, ritual or liturgy appears as a kind of 'primary' theology. The general rituality of conversion, as noted by Strecker, is discussed more extensively by Thomas M. Finn (1990) in his work titled From death to rebirth: Ritual and conversion in antiquity.…”

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“…Open Access beyond studies such as those of Meeks (2003:140-163), Neyrey (1990:87-88) 8 , Strecker (2011Strecker ( :1383Strecker ( -1440cf. 1990), DeMaris (2008), Klostergaard Petersen (1998 and Groenewald (2005), in that it does not just ask how early Christian initiatory ritual functioned and related to its context, but also how it developed through a process of ritual failure and ritual negotiation.…”

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Ritual failure in Romans 6

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2016

HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies

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Ritual studies are slow to make a large impact on New Testament studies, despite a number of notable exceptions. This notwithstanding, rituals occur frequently in the New Testament, in particular when there is a problem with a ritual. In this article, recent anthropological work on ‘ritual failure’ is used to address Paul’s discussion of Roman practices concerning baptism in relation to a person’s walk of life and to argue that this can be understood well as a case of ’ritual failure,’ in which a ritual fails, from Paul’s perspective, to achieve what it should. This leads both to challenging the attitude of the Romans concerning baptism and to a reconsideration of its significance.

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