Crux Sola: Formed by Scripture to Live like Christ
I am pleased to announce the soon-coming appearance of an article of mine:
‘A Spiritual House of Royal Priests, Chosen and Honored: The Presence and Function of Cultic Imagery in 1 Peter’, Perspectives in Religious Studies 36.1 (2009): 61-76.
In this article, I attempt to utilize insights from social and cognitive-literary theories to demonstrate not simply how cultic metaphors (temple, priest, sacrifice) are meant to say something (theologically), but also do something (especially with respect to value systems, honor and shame, responses to suffering). If Richard Hays has spent a lifetime arguing that ‘echoes of Scripture’ aid in converting the imagination of those who engage in the NT, I wish to supplement and support this by saying that the NT writers utilize many clusters of metaphors (kinship, cult, politics) towards the same purpose.
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