Why This New Race : Ethnic Reasoning in Early Christianity.

Why This New Race offers a radical new way of thinking about the origins of Christian identity. Conventional histories have understood Christianity as a religion that from its beginnings sought to transcend ethnic and racial distinctions. Denise Kimber Buell challenges this view by revealing the cen...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Buell, Denise K.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, 2005.
Series:Gender, theory, and religion.
Subjects:
30-600
Race > Religious aspects > Christianity > History of doctrines > Early church, ca. 30-600.
Ethnicity > Religious aspects > Christianity > History of doctrines > Early church, ca. 30-600.
Identification (Religion) > History of doctrines > Early church, ca. 30-600.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Half title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Abbreviations; Preface; Introduction; 1. "Worshippers of So-Called Gods, Jews, and Christians": Religion in Ethnoracial Discourses; 2. "We Were Before the Foundation of the World": Appeals to the Past in Early Christian Self-Definition; 3. "We, Quarried from the Bowels of Christ, Are the True Genos of Israel": Christian Claims to Peoplehood; 4. "A Genos Saved by Nature": Ethnic Reasoning as Intra-Christian Polemic; 5. "From Every Race of Humans": Ethnic Reasoning, Conversion, and Christian Universalism; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography.

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