Judith Lieu (, Professor of New Testament Studies, King's College L

Christian Identity in the Jewish and Graeco-Roman World

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Such an approach challenges more traditional emphases on the development of institutions, whether structures or creedal and ethical formulations, which often fail to recognize the rhetorical function of the texts on which they draw, and the uncertainties of how well these reflect the actual practice and experience of individuals and communities. While building on recent recognition of the diversity of early Christianity, the book goes on to explore the question whether it is possible to speak of a distinctive Christian identity across both the range of early texts and as a pressing historical and theological question in the contemporary world.

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Exploring as to how a sense of being 'a Christian', or of 'Christian identity', was shaped within the setting of the Jewish and Graeco-Roman world, this work shows that, there were similarities and differences in the ways Jews and others were thinking about themselves, and asks what made early Christianity distinctive.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juli 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 221mm x 148mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 630g
• ISBN-13: 9780199262892
• ISBN-10: 0199262896
• Artikelnr.: 21736397

Autorenporträt

Judith Lieu is Professor of New Testament Studies at King's College London.

Inhaltsangabe

1: Introduction: The Emergence of Christian Identity
2: Text and Identity
3: History, Memory, and the Invention of Tradition
4: Boundaries
5: The Grammar of Practice
6: Embodiment and Gender
7: Space and Place
8: The Christian Race
9: `The Other'
10: Made Not Born: Conclusions