Candida R. Moss

The Other Christs (eBook, ePUB)

Imitating Jesus in Ancient Christian Ideologies of Martyrdom

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Moss begins by tracing the theme of imitating Jesus through suffering in the literature of the Jesus movement and early church and its application in martyrdom literature. She demonstrates the importance of imitating the sufferings of Christ as a practice and ethos in the Jesus movement. She then proceeds to the interpretations of the martyr's death and afterlife, arguing against the dominant theory that the martyr's death was viewed as a sacrifice, and finding that in their post-mortem existence martyrs continue to be assimilated to Christ, closely resembling the exalted Christ as intercessors, judges, enthroned monarchs and banqueters.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Mai 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199890064
• Artikelnr.: 38129073

Autorenporträt

Candida R. Moss is Assistant Professor of Liberal Studies and Concurrent Assistant Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame. She is the winner of the 2011 John Templeton Award for Theological Promise.

Inhaltsangabe

Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1: Suffering Like Christ
Chapter 2: The Martyr as Alter Christus
Chapter 3: The Savior Martyr
Chapter 4: The Martyr's Heaven
Chapter 5: The Martyr as Divine Heir
Conclusion
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index