TY - BOOK ID - 3493471 TI - Paul's Ekklesia as a civic assembly : understanding the people of God in their politico-social world AU - Park, Young-Ho AU - Mohr Siebeck PY - 2015 VL - 393 SN - 9783161530609 3161530608 PB - Tübingen Mohr Siebeck DB - UniCat KW - 227.08 KW - Paulinische theologie KW - 227.08 Paulinische theologie UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:3493471 AB - The Greek word ekklesia originally meant the civic assembly of all citizens in the classical Greek democracy. Young-Ho Park argues that the strong civic connotation of this term continued to operate in the political culture of the Hellenistic and Roman periods. The use of ekklesia in second-temple Judaism should also be understood as part of this political culture in which the Jews were substantially incorporated. By adopting this civic term in his letters to his local Gentile congregations, Paul effectively created a symbolic universe in which the Christ worshippers saw themselves as the ... ER -