The Ascetic Impulse in Ancient Christianity
Year: 1993
Type: article
Abstract: “It is important to understand … that the difference between the non-elites (‘the weak’) and the elites in Corinth is not that between a world-rejecting ethic (the ‘weak’) on the one hand and a world-embracing ethic (the pneumatic elites) on the other. Clearly, both groups shared the imperative to renounce the world; the fact of membership in this new social group, the Jesus movement at Corinth, suggests as much.”
Source: Theology Today
Author: Vincent L. Wimbush
Institution: Union Theological Seminary
Language: English
Subfield: Religious studies
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2130003968