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Online-Ressource (497 p)
ISBN:
9780231133357
Inhalt:
Why This New Race offers a radical new way of thinking about the origins of Christian identity. Conventional histories have understood Christianity as a religion that from its beginnings sought to transcend ethnic and racial distinctions. Denise Kimber Buell challenges this view by revealing the centrality of ethnicity and race in early definitions of Christianity. Buell's readings of various texts consider the use of ""ethnic reasoning"" to depict Christianness as more than a set of shared religious practices and beliefs. By asking themselves, ""Why this new race?"" Christians
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Cover; Half title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Abbreviations; Preface; Introduction; 1. "Worshippers of So-Called Gods, Jews, and Christians": Religion in Ethnoracial Discourses; 2. "We Were Before the Foundation of the World": Appeals to the Past in Early Christian Self-Definition; 3. "We, Quarried from the Bowels of Christ, Are the True Genos of Israel": Christian Claims to Peoplehood; 4. "A Genos Saved by Nature": Ethnic Reasoning as Intra-Christian Polemic; 5. "From Every Race of Humans": Ethnic Reasoning, Conversion, and Christian Universalism; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography
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Index of Ancient SourcesGeneral Index
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ISBN 9780231508209
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ISBN 9780231133357
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Why This New Race : Ethnic Reasoning in Early Christianity
Sprache:
Englisch
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Electronic books
