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Google Preview: 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.; C. Andrew Ballard is adjunct instructor of religion at Fordham University.; Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Defining Mystagogues in the Mystery Cults of Antiquity Chapter 3: Initiation into Philosophy and Truth, Part One: Metaphorical Mystagogues in Classical, Hellenistic, and Early Imperial Literature Chapter 4:Initiation into Philosophy and Truth, Part Two: Metaphorical Mystagogues in Jewish Literature of the Hellenistic and Early Imperial Periods Chapter 5: The Duality of the Mystagogue: Power and Foolishness Chapter 6: Initiating Paul, Part One: The Appropriation and Disruption of the Mystagogue in 1 Corinthians Chapter 7: Initiating Paul, Part Two: The Appropriation and Disruption of the Mystagogue in 2 Corinthians; Download; Google Preview content

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