Christianity in the Second Century (eBook, PDF)

Themes and Developments
Redaktion: Paget, James Carleton

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Produktbeschreibung

Christianity in the Second Century shows how academic study on this critical period of Christian development has undergone substantial change over the last thirty years. The second century is often considered to be a time during which the Christian church moved relentlessly towards forms of institutionalisation and consolidated itself against so-called heretics. However, new perspectives have been brought within recent scholarship as the period has attracted interest from a variety of disciplines, including not only early Christian studies but also ancient Judaism and the wider world of the early imperial scholarship. This book seeks to reflect this changed scholarly landscape, and with contributions from key figures in these recent re-evaluations, it aims to enrich and stimulate further discussion.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781316730881
• Artikelnr.: 48408501

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Judith Lieu and James Carleton Paget; Part I. Contexts: 1.
Empires, diasporas and the emergence of religions Greg Woolf; 2. The
Mediterranean Jewish diaspora in the second century Tessa Rajak; 3. The
Rabbis and their rivals in the second century CE Philip Alexander; 4.
Church and synagogue vis-à-vis Roman rule in the second century William
Horbury; Part II. Discerning Continuity and Discontinuity in Early
Christianity: 5. The second century from the perspective of the New
Testament James Carleton Paget; 6. Continuity and change in second century
Christianity: a narrative against the trend Lewis Ayres; 7. 'The Gnostic
myth': how does its demise impact twenty-first century historiography of
Christianity's second century? Karen King; 8. The Gnostic myth Mark
Edwards; 9. Modelling second century Christian theology: Christian theology
as philosophia Winrich Löhr; Part III. Interpreting Texts and Engaging in
Practice: 10. Galen and the Christians: texts, authority, and orthodoxy in
the second century AD Rebecca Flemming; 11. 'Authoritative texts' and how
to handle them: some reflections on an ambiguous concept and its use in
second-century Christian literature Joseph Verheyden; 12. Belief and
practice in Graeco-Roman religiosity: Plutarch, De Iside and Osiride 379c
Teresa Morgan; 13. Dice oracles and fate: on early Christianity among
others in the second century Laura Nasrallah; Part IV. Modelling
Identities: 14. Christians as 'third race': is ethnicity at issue? Erich
Gruen; 15. Ethnic discourse in early Christianity Oskar Skarasuane; 16.
Pagan attitudes John North; 17. Away with the atheists! Tim Whitmarsh; 18.
Modelling the second century as the age of the laboratory Judith Lieu.