Seksualitātes Kontrole Un Autoritāte "Pāvila Darbu" Askētiskajos Makarismos: Controlling Sexuality and Authority in the Ascetic Macarisms of Acts of Paul.
Acts of Paul are first mentioned by the church father Tertullian in his work On Baptism in the context of a discussion of women's rights to teach and baptize. Tertullian denies such rights to women and states that the "example of Thecla" which is contained in Acts of Paul cannot be ta...
| Published in: | Cel̜š |
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| Language: | Latvian |
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LU Akadēmiskais apgāds
2017
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Cel̜š
Year: 2017, Issue: 67, Pages: 5-26 |
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| Summary: | Acts of Paul are first mentioned by the church father Tertullian in his work On Baptism in the context of a discussion of women's rights to teach and baptize. Tertullian denies such rights to women and states that the "example of Thecla" which is contained in Acts of Paul cannot be taken as a argument for such rights due to his knowledge of the inauthenticity of Acts of Paul. Such a statement may point to the fact that someone, whom he opposes, had actually read the text this way. As the present text of Acts of Paul only contains a reference to Thecla baptizing herself and teaching almost exclusively women, it seems that Tertullian and his opponents made a connection between the authority to teach that was clearly given to Thecla by Paul at the end of the Thecla’s story, and the authority to baptize. Further in the paper, the exploration of the Paul's sermon in Iconium that is heard by Thecla and leads to her conversion seeks to establish a connection between asceticism and authority. Authority in the context of the early Christian community is understood in terms of the authentic representation of the Christian teaching. The sermon defines ascetics and reverent Christians as those who represent the authentic teaching of Christ through macarisms that announce salvation to those individuals. The implications of "asceticism" and "reverence" are vague and do not point clearly to any definite practice, and the definition of the implications of "authority" is also lacking. The possible meaning of the statements contained in the macarisms is clarified through studying the usage of the employed words and in other literature of the researched time period. |
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