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Why this new race : ethnic reasoning in early Christianity /

Conventional histories have understood Christianity as a religion that has sought to transcend ethnic and racial distinctions. Denise Kimber Buell challenges this view and argues that ethnicity and race played a crucial role in early definitions of Christianity. In her readings of early Christian te...

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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Buell, Denise Kimber, 1965-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2005.
Collection:Gender, theory, and religion.
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505 0 |a Worshipers of so-called gods, Jews, and Christians: religion in ethnoracial discourses -- We were before the foundation of the world: appeals to the past in early Christian self-definition -- We quarried from the bowels of Christ, are the true Genos of Israel: Christian claims to peoplehood -- A Genos saved by nature: Ethnic reasoning as intra-Christian polemic -- From every race of humans: ethnic reasoning, conversion, and Christian universalism. 
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