Christian discipleship: unlearning temple life and learning table manners

7/14/2017

Given the prevailing Greco-Roman “fellowship meal” and the every-day embedded habitus of pagan temple life, we should consider reading the NT with this in mind. This would mean that basic Christian discipleship was new Gentile Christians unlearning Greco-Roman page temple life and churches learning gospel-table manners at their household banquet-meals.

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Chip M. Anderson, advocate for biblical social action; pastor of an urban church plant in the Hill neighborhood of New Haven, CT; husband, father, author, former Greek & NT professor; and, 19 years involved with social action.

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