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Voluntary Exile as the Solution to Discord in 1 Clement

Veröffentlicht/Copyright: 26. Mai 2014
Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum / Journal of Ancient Christianity
Aus der Zeitschrift Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum / Journal of Ancient Christianity Band 18 Heft 1

Abstract

The counsel of voluntary exile offered to the leaders of the faction in the church at Corinth in 1 Clement 54 has long puzzled interpreters who sense that it ill comports with the author’s insistence upon harmony, humility, and love. Aware that the discursive strategy of 1 Clement derives from the genre of political rhetoric, interpreters have adduced parallels to the apostrophe of 1 Clement 54 from the speeches of voluntary exiles in Roman political history. The present essay examines Clement’s rhetorical appeal to the leaders of the faction in the context of the exile literature of the first and second centuries C.E., focusing upon treatises and discourses composed by Musonius, Plutarch, Dio Chrysostom, and Favorinus. By situating 1 Clement 54 within the “discourse of displacement”1 that flourished in the early Empire, the essay demonstrates how Clement utilizes exile to construct a persona that dramatizes a communal consciousness of being resident aliens in the Roman Empire.

Published Online: 2014-05-26
Published in Print: 2014-05-15

© 2014 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin/Boston

Artikel in diesem Heft

  1. Masthead
  2. Artikel
  3. Editorial/Einleitung
  4. Voluntary Exile as the Solution to Discord in 1 Clement
  5. The Historical Example in 1 Clement
  6. Jealousy, Internal Strife, and the Deaths of Peter and Paul: A Reassessment of 1 Clement
  7. Harnack’s Image of 1 Clement and Contemporary Research
  8. The God ‘Human’ and Human Gods. Models of Deification in Irenaeus and the Apocryphon of John
  9. Irenaeus and the Gnostic Valentinus: Orthodoxy and Heresy in the Church of Rome around the Middle of the Second Century
  10. A late witness to Valentinian devotion in Egypt?
  11. Rezensionen
https://doi.org/10.1515/zac-2014-0002

Artikel in diesem Heft

  1. Masthead
  2. Artikel
  3. Editorial/Einleitung
  4. Voluntary Exile as the Solution to Discord in 1 Clement
  5. The Historical Example in 1 Clement
  6. Jealousy, Internal Strife, and the Deaths of Peter and Paul: A Reassessment of 1 Clement
  7. Harnack’s Image of 1 Clement and Contemporary Research
  8. The God ‘Human’ and Human Gods. Models of Deification in Irenaeus and the Apocryphon of John
  9. Irenaeus and the Gnostic Valentinus: Orthodoxy and Heresy in the Church of Rome around the Middle of the Second Century
  10. A late witness to Valentinian devotion in Egypt?
  11. Rezensionen
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