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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Buell, Denise Kimber, 1965-
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.
RELIGION > Christian Church > History.
RELIGION > Christianity > History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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