The Basis of Early Christian Theism
Author : Lawrence Thomas Cole
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 24,24 MB
Release : 2020-09-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1465561536
Author : Lawrence Thomas Cole
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 24,24 MB
Release : 2020-09-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1465561536
Author : Lawrence Thomas Cole
Publisher :
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 44,60 MB
Release : 1898
Category : Religion
ISBN :
Explores the period of time when the doctrines of the Christian Church were finding their connection with and relation to the speculations of Greek philosophy.
Author : Lawrence Thomas Cole
Publisher :
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 38,70 MB
Release : 1898
Category : Church history
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Author : Paula Fredriksen
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 34,18 MB
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0300164106
"Magisterial. . . . A learned, brilliant and enjoyable study."—Géza Vermès, Times Literary Supplement In this exciting book, Paula Fredriksen explains the variety of New Testament images of Jesus by exploring the ways that the new Christian communities interpreted his mission and message in light of the delay of the Kingdom he had preached. This edition includes an introduction reviews the most recent scholarship on Jesus and its implications for both history and theology. "Brilliant and lucidly written, full of original and fascinating insights."—Reginald H. Fuller, Journal of the American Academy of Religion "This is a first-rate work of a first-rate historian."—James D. Tabor, Journal of Religion "Fredriksen confronts her documents—principally the writings of the New Testament—as an archaeologist would an especially rich complex site. With great care she distinguishes the literary images from historical fact. As she does so, she explains the images of Jesus in terms of the strategies and purposes of the writers Paul, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John."—Thomas D’Evelyn, Christian Science Monitor
Author : Gerd Theissen
Publisher : Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 38,76 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780334029137
A discussion of 'primitive' Christianity - Christianity in its original form, this work was first given as Speaker's Lectures in Oxford. Covering the first five centuries of Christianity, it argues that neither a theology of the New Testament nor a history of the early Church can do justice to all the dimensions of the earliest Christianity. It explores in depth the formation of primitive Christianity and studies the effect of the two great crises of primitive Christianity: the split with Judaism and the threat from Gnosticism. It is aimed at academic theologians.
Author : J. P. Moreland
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 573 pages
File Size : 49,58 MB
Release : 2013-08-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0199344345
Comprising groundbreaking dialogues by many of the most prominent scholars in Christian apologetics and the philosophy of religion, this volume offers a definitive treatment of central questions of Christian faith. The essays are ecumenical and broadly Christian, in the spirit of C.S. Lewis's Mere Christianity, and feature lucid and up-to-date material designed to engage readers in contemporary theistic and Christian issues. Beginning with dialogues about God's existence and the coherence of theism and then moving beyond generic theism to address significant debates over such specifically Christian doctrines as the Trinity and the resurrection of Jesus, Debating Christian Theism provides an ideal starting point for anyone seeking to understand the current debates in Christian theology.
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Publisher : Prometheus Books
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 37,61 MB
Release :
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ISBN : 1615923675
Author : Susan Ashbrook Harvey
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks Online
Page : 1049 pages
File Size : 40,53 MB
Release : 2008-09-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0199271569
Provides an introduction to the academic study of early Christianity (c. 100-600 AD) and examines the vast geographical area impacted by the early church, in Western and Eastern late antiquity. --from publisher description.
Author : Larry W. Hurtado
Publisher :
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 30,21 MB
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9781481304757
"Silly," "stupid," "irrational," "simple." "Wicked," "hateful," "obstinate," "anti-social." "Extravagant," "perverse." The Roman world rendered harsh judgments upon early Christianity--including branding Christianity "new." Novelty was no Roman religious virtue. Nevertheless, as Larry W. Hurtado shows in Destroyer of the gods, Christianity thrived despite its new and distinctive features and opposition to them. Unlike nearly all other religious groups, Christianity utterly rejected the traditional gods of the Roman world. Christianity also offered a new and different kind of religious identity, one not based on ethnicity. Christianity was distinctively a "bookish" religion, with the production, copying, distribution, and reading of texts as central to its faith, even preferring a distinctive book-form, the codex. Christianity insisted that its adherents behave differently: unlike the simple ritual observances characteristic of the pagan religious environment, embracing Christian faith meant a behavioral transformation, with particular and novel ethical demands for men. Unquestionably, to the Roman world, Christianity was both new and different, and, to a good many, it threatened social and religious conventions of the day. In the rejection of the gods and in the centrality of texts, early Christianity obviously reflected commitments inherited from its Jewish origins. But these particular features were no longer identified with Jewish ethnicity and early Christianity quickly became aggressively trans-ethnic--a novel kind of religious movement. Its ethical teaching, too, bore some resemblance to the philosophers of the day, yet in contrast with these great teachers and their small circles of dedicated students, early Christianity laid its hard demands upon all adherents from the moment of conversion, producing a novel social project. Christianity's novelty was no badge of honor. Called atheists and suspected of political subversion, Christians earned Roman disdain and suspicion in equal amounts. Yet, as Destroyer of the gods demonstrates, in an irony of history the very features of early Christianity that rendered it distinctive and objectionable in Roman eyes have now become so commonplace in Western culture as to go unnoticed. Christianity helped destroy one world and create another.
Author : Denise Buell
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 27,20 MB
Release : 2008-08-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0231133359
Denise Kimber Buell radically rethinks the origins of Christian identity, arguing that race and ethnicity played a central role in early Christian theology. Focusing on texts written before the legalization of Christianity in 313 C.E., including Greek apologetic treatises, martyr narratives, and works by Clement of Alexandria, Origen, Justin Martyr, and Tertullian, Buell shows how philosophers and theologians defined Christians as a distinct group within the Roman world, characterizing Christianness as something both fixed in its essence and fluid in its acquisition through conversion. Buell demonstrates how this view allowed Christians to establish boundaries around the meaning of Christianness and to develop the kind of universalizing claims aimed at uniting all members of the faith. Her arguments challenge generations of scholars who have refused to acknowledge ethnic reasoning in early Christian discourses. They also provide crucial insight into the historical legacy of Christian anti-Semitism and contemporary issues of race.