What is it about?
Plato, Aristotle, St. Paul and early Christian authors such as St. Ignatius offer a consistent understanding of sport as a public act in which values are demonstrated by the performance of athletes. Paul and the early Christian tradition explain Christian values within the context of sports values as understood in the Platonic and Aristotelian traditions.
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Why is it important?
It traces an unrecognized understanding of sport in the ancient philosophical tradition. It also explains why and how early Christian writing took up this understanding of sport to explicate Christian ethics.
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This is the central article in my recent series exploring the role of sports as performative public discourse. It offers new ways of seeing much in the ancient philosophical and early Christian traditions.
Daniel Durbin
University of Southern California
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This page is a summary of: From Plato to St. Paul: ancient sport as performative public discourse, Journal of the Philosophy of Sport, September 2020, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/00948705.2020.1811108.
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