The Parousia of Paul at Iconium

Author: Luke, Trevor S.1

Source: Religion and Theology, Volume 15, Numbers 3-4, 2008 , pp. 225-251(27)

Publisher: BRILL

Key:
Free Content - Free Content
New Content - New Content
Subscribed Content - Subscribed Content
Free Trial Content - Free Trial Content

Abstract:

This article explores the parousia reception, instead of the arena, as a locus for spectacle production in the Roman Empire, specifically in certain passages of early Christian literature. Not only did Christians apply the familiar image of parousia to their eschatology, but they also produced new truths about empire and the location of legitimate authority through their creative production of distinctive parousia spectacles. Through these literary spectacles, old truths about the body and authority were challenged as Christians developed a cosmology for the parousia spectacle that both transformed parousia and also served as a new hermeneutic for interpreting such ceremonies. The arrival of Paul at Iconium represented a radical reinterpretation of parousia in that it shifted the locus of spectation from the emperor to the individual Christian. In producing and consuming their own parousia spectacles, Christians participated in imperial discourse.

Keywords: PAROUSIA; ADVENTUS; SPECTACLE; ESCHATOLOGY; IMPERIALISM

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.1163/157430108X376528

Affiliations: 1: Department of Classics, 205A Dodd Hall, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306-1510, United States of America

The full text electronic article is available for purchase. You will be able to download the full text electronic article after payment.

$25.00 plus tax

 

OR

Back to top

Key:
Free Content - Free Content
New Content - New Content
Subscribed Content - Subscribed Content
Free Trial Content - Free Trial Content
Page Help Click here for Page Help
Shopping cart
Tools
Sign in






Need to register?
Sign up here
Text size: A | A | A | A