Term or model used in this packet's account of Paul, Christianity, Roman power, or church doctrine.
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body of Christ
Term or model used in this packet's account of Paul, Christianity, Roman power, or church doctrine.
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Key Notes
Jiang says Paul turns church gathering into ritual obedience rather than discussion of Jesus.
The Eucharist is interpreted as a ritual that negates individual divine sparks by making believers possessed parts of Jesus.
A student asks whether consuming Jesus abuses him; Jiang answers by emphasizing mastery and obedience rather than exploitation of Jesus.
The body-of-Christ passage makes each believer a part of a larger organism rather than an autonomous spiritual seeker.
Jiang says resurrecting Jesus in the church requires complete obedience to assigned functions.
Paul's hierarchy of apostles, prophets, teachers, miracles, and tongues is read as divinely ordained role differentiation.
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"So it's almost like a pep rally, right? He's a business person. He's telling his workers, go out and sell those damn hamburgers, man...."
"So please don't do so, okay? Because my brain is no different from anyone else's brain, okay? You won't find the secret of my..."
"For I received from the Lord what I also handed on to you. And the Lord Jesus, on the night when he was betrayed,..."
"Can we see this as a way that they abuse or exploit Jesus because they're just eating their body, although the body of Jesus..."
"...so what he's saying is this, when you consume the body of Christ, you've all consumed a part of Him, right? And so we..."
"...the bread they're eating is the flesh. It is the body of Christ, of Jesus. So Jesus is entering into you and taking you..."
"Now you are the body of Christ and individually member of it. And God has appointed in the church first apostles, second prophets, third..."
Relevant Lectures And Readings
Jesus arrives as a poor prophet of the inner spark; Paul turns that spark into belief, obedience, ritual, hierarchy, and a machine that can outlive Rome.
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