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Record Nr.

UNINA9910155143503321

Autore

Johnson Dru

Titolo

Knowledge by Ritual : A Biblical Prolegomenon to Sacramental Theology / / Dru Johnson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Winona Lake, Indiana : , : Eisenbrauns, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-57506-432-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

Journal of theological interpretation supplements ; 13

Disciplina

234.16

Soggetti

Théorie de la connaissance (christianisme)

Théorie de la connaissance (religion)

Rites et cérémonies

Sacrements

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Overcoming ritual's negative connotations -- Part I. Epistemology, ritual theory, and methodology. Why standard theories of knowledge are insufficient -- What is a rite and what does it have to do with knowledge? -- How we will proceed: cautions and liabilities of this study -- Part II. The general case for ritual knowing. The biblical idea of truth and its consequences for rituals -- The centrality of the body for knowing -- The scientific use of ritual in order to know -- Part III. The biblical case for ritual knowing. Why Israel's rites are epistemological in the Hebrew Bible -- Tests and the prophetic indictment of ritual in the Hebrew Bible -- Continuity and ritual knowing in the early Jerusalemite Jesus community -- Ritualization: a better construct than supersessionism -- Part IV. Theological implications of ritual knowing. Ritual as an ethically prepared process -- Knowledge as a subset of ethics -- Implications for constructing sacramental theology.