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  • The One Body of the Shema in 1 Corinthians: An Ecclesiology of Christological Monotheism

  • Andrew Byers
  • Journal:
    New Testament Studies / Volume 62 / Issue 4 / October 2016
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    14 September 2016, pp. 517-532
    Print publication:
    October 2016

  • When Paul employs the motif of oneness in 1 Corinthians 12 and joins it to the metaphor of Christ's body, he is drawing not only on Greco-Roman political rhetoric, as argued by the majority of interpreters, but also, and at times more directly, from theological wells found within his Jewish theological heritage: the use of the phrase ‘one body’ in 1 Corinthians is an ecclesial application of the Shema. Paul's oneness language expresses not simply a call to internal unity or social harmony. Ultimately, the ecclesial designation ‘one’ is a succinct articulation of an ecclesiology of Christological monotheism.