By Jaime Clark-Soles
Scripture is strong for all who lend it authority. Clark-Soles explores the ways that the writer of the Fourth Gospel deploys scripture to shape his sectarian neighborhood. the 1st a part of the e-book offers the sociological framework for addressing the function of scripture inside sectarian groups. by way of definition, sects are in clash with a guardian culture. How, if in any respect, does a sect acceptable these texts that not just "belong" to the dad or mum culture but in addition are utilized by that mother or father culture to deride the sectarians? by means of investigating the dynamics of scripture within the historic Qumran group and within the glossy department Davidian group, Clark-Soles make clear the group of the Fourth Gospel.
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Nancy Ammerman explains that “Weber was arguing with Marx on this score. So unlike Marx (for whom the material conditions were both necessary and sufficient), Weber posits that both material conditions and ideas are necessary (the train and the switchmen). ” Personal correspondence, February 9, 2000. 36 But doctrine “caused” ethos only in an immediate sense. 69 The fundamental recognition that there is a dialectic between ideology and ethos, and the articulation of how a leader may persuade her listeners, serves our study and will be referred to in the following chapters when I analyze how the authors deploy Scripture.
What the denouncer says must be regarded by the witnesses as true on the grounds of a socially employed metaphysics whereby witnesses assume that witnesses and denouncer are alike in essence. . ”79 The denouncer must draw attention to the group’s “ultimate values,” speak on behalf of those values, and be viewed as one who maintains those values. The last requirement involves drawing boundaries, separating the denounced from the denouncer and the group. , he must be defined as standing at a place opposed to it.
These designations are not as tidy as they might first appear because (a) the categories “Jews” and “world” overlap and (b) by “secular” I do not mean a-religious or non-religious since it would be difficult to find a person in antiquity not involved in some religious cult. Rather, I mean to indicate that part of the larger culture that does not participate in the sect’s parent tradition, which, for the Qumran and Fourth Gospel communities consists of pagans. Likewise, those in the larger culture outside of Seventh-Day Adventism who are designated as “the world” might actually be part of a religious tradition and not define themselves in “secular” terms.