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To Know All Mysteries: The Mystagogue Figure in Classical Antiquity and in Saint Paul's Letters to the Corinthians

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This book examines the way that Paul presents himself as a guide into mysteries, a "mystagogue," in 1-2 Corinthians. By describing himself as a type of mystagogue for the community, Paul was following a precedent in both Jewish and non-Jewish sources for invoking mystagogic language to engage in polemics with a rival. In opposition to the precedent, however, Paul understands the mystagogue to be a bi-partite figure--comprised of both foolishness and wisdom simultaneously. C. Andrew Ballard argues that ancient mystagogues were often described in two disparate ways: figures of power, and figures of weakness and foolishness. Paul synthesizes both aspects of the mystagogue in his self-presentation to the Corinthians. The figure of the mystagogue, as a wise-fool, was useful to Paul because it was descriptive not only of his own experience as a suffering yet authoritative apostle, but also of the experience of his deity, the suffering and glorified Christ. By presenting himself as both a powerful and foolish mystagogue, Paul could argue that he was a more authentic imitator of Christ than his opponents in Corinth, who boasted in self-exaltation instead of self-humility. In this way, Paul used the character of the mystagogue as a strategic rhetorical tool in his communication with the Corinthians.

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TO KNOW ALL MYSTERIES

Format: Hardcover
Pages: 404
Product Weight: 1.68 lbs
Author: Ballard, C. Andrew
Publication Date: 2022-09-01
Language: English
Series: Paul in Critical Contexts
Publisher: UNITED SYNAGOGUE OF CONSERVATI
Dewey Decimal Classification: 227.06
Number of Units in Package: 1

ISBN: 9781978711105