Markus Vinzent (King's College London)

Resetting the Origins of Christianity

A New Theory of Sources and Beginnings

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Produktbeschreibung

The author boldly challenges understandings of one of the most momentous social and religious movements in history, as well as its reception over time and place. Provides novel ways of reading well-known major historians (Gregory of Tours, Orosius, Eusebius a.o.) and key texts (Irenaeus, Seneca- Paul letters, NT Gospels, Ignatius).

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 350
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. März 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 146mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 736g
• ISBN-13: 9781009290487
• ISBN-10: 1009290487
• Artikelnr.: 66453811

Autorenporträt

Markus Vinzent is Professor in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at King's College London and a Fellow of the Max-Weber Kolleg, University of Erfurt. A recipient of awards from the British Academy, the Arts and Humanities Research Board, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, and the Agence Nationale de Recherche, France, he is the author of Writing the History of Early Christianity (Cambridge University Press 2019).

Inhaltsangabe

1. The Romans, Christ, and Paul
2. 'The older, the better': Eusebius of Caesarea and his construction of early Christian beginnings
3. The Apostolic and Prophetic Church according to Iulius Africanus, Origen and Tertullian
4. Scriptures and Tradition in Irenaeus and the Canonical New Testament
5. The Twelve Apostles - the Praxapostolos, the Epistula Apostolorum, and the Acts of the Apostles
6. Traditions of Paul and the Ignatian Letters
Outlook: How did it really happen?
Appendix.