Nuanced Identities

The Allender Center Podcast

The Allender Center

Psychology, Religion & Spirituality, Mental Health, Christianity, Trauma, Health & Fitness, Theology

4.6 • 628 Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2022

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

This week, we’re revisiting a conversation from 2018 between Dr. Dan Allender and Dr. Angela Parker, Professor at The Seattle School of Theology & Psychology, as they explore the passage of 1 Corinthians 4:8-13. Dr. Parker starts by offering some context about the port city of Corinth and the people who make up the church Paul is writing to. It’s a divided city, concerned with hierarchy and proximity to power.

Dr. Parker challenges us to consider Paul’s ethnicity, gender, and position as we wonder about “what might be going on underneath the text,” which also invites us to wrestle with our own nuanced identities as readers of the text.

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0:00.0	Hi everyone. This is Melissa Dowell, manager of product development at the Allender Center. This week,
0:07.4	we're revisiting a conversation from 2018 between Dr. Dan Allender and Dr. Angela Parker,
0:15.0	Professor with the Seattle School for Theology and Psychology. This discussion takes a deep dive into the context and implications of the Apostle Paul's words
0:25.5	in 1st Corinthians 4, 8 through 13.
0:29.4	We hope that Paul's writing is a reminder of the need for having honest, nuanced conversations
0:35.7	about race and gender that recognize a continuum of privilege and hierarchy.
0:46.0	Thank you for listening to the Allender Center podcast. I'm Dr. Dan Allender.
0:51.0	And I'm Rachel Clinton-Cenn. We're fiercely committed to providing hope and healing
0:55.4	to a fragmented world. And restoration for the heart. Thank you for joining us. Let's get this
1:01.5	conversation started. Well, one of my most favorite faculty to play with Dr. Angela Parker, Angela, thank you again for joining us.
1:21.2	Thank you for having me. It's always a pleasure to sit with you, Dan.
1:24.8	Thank you. Well, one of the things I asked was that you pick a
1:28.7	passage that means a lot to you. Yes. And so you pick one out of the Corinthian epistles. And I am,
1:37.8	I've always been very drawn to first and second Corinthians. So I was kind of happy. And then you pick one that I just have to tell you,
1:47.9	we could go well beyond our 20-some-minute spectrum. So yes, we could. Jump in. Read the passage
1:54.4	for us. And then I have so many questions. Wonderful. Well, I'm reading from the NRSV version.
2:05.9	And Paul has basically begun the letter to the Corinthians with his greetings as standard and normal and begun to think about some of their
2:11.7	differences in their particular ecclese, or their particular church gathering. And at verse eight, he says,
2:20.7	already you have all you want. Already you have become rich. Quite apart from us, you have become kings.
2:28.7	Indeed, I wish that you had become kings so that we might be kings with you. For I think that God has exhibited
2:36.0	us apostles as last of all, as though sentenced to death, because we have become a spectacle
2:42.9	to the world, to angels and to mortals. We are fools for the sake of Christ, but you are wise in Christ.
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