Bautismo y Sexualidad: Reconfiguración Jurisdiccional del Cuerpo

Bautismo y Sexualidad: Reconfiguración Jurisdiccional del Cuerpo This study examines the ritual and social implications of baptism in first-century Christian communities, focusing on its role in redefining embodied identity. It argues that baptism functioned as a symbolic reallocation of allegiance, situating the baptized individual under the exclusive lordship of the Kyrios within a new communal framework. By contrasting the hierarchically structured sexual norms of the Roman High Empire with emerging Christian discourses of bodily sanctification, the analysis explores how the early ekklesia articulated a distinct regime of somatic discipline. Drawing on the metaphor of sacral manumission, the study considers how the body came to be conceptualized as a temple of the Spirit, reinforcing reciprocal marital obligations and the categorical rejection of porneia. The paper concludes that this reconfiguration of embodied allegiance contributed to processes of communal differentiation that, within the Roman imperial context, could generate social tension and accusations such as odium humani generis.