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Why this new race : ethnic reasoning in early Christianity /

Conventional histories have understood Christianity as a religion that has sought to transcend ethnic and racial distinctions. Denise Kimber Buell challenges this view and argues that ethnicity and race played a crucial role in early definitions of Christianity. In her readings of early Christian te...

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Основен автор: Buell, Denise Kimber, 1965-
Формат: Електронна книга
Език: English
Публикувано: New York : Columbia University Press, ℗♭2005.
Серия: Gender, theory, and religion.
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Подобни документи: Print version:: Why this new race.
Съдържание:
  • Worshipers of so-called gods, Jews, and Christians: religion in ethnoracial discourses
  • We were before the foundation of the world: appeals to the past in early Christian self-definition
  • We quarried from the bowels of Christ, are the true Genos of Israel: Christian claims to peoplehood
  • A Genos saved by nature: Ethnic reasoning as intra-Christian polemic
  • From every race of humans: ethnic reasoning, conversion, and Christian universalism.