Why this new race ethnic reasoning in early Christianity
Title:
Why this new race ethnic reasoning in early Christianity
Author:
Buell, Denise Kimber, 1965-
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Publication Information:
New York : Columbia University Press, c2005.
Physical Description:
xiv, 257 p.
Series:
Gender, theory, and religion
Gender, theory, and religion.
Contents:
"Worshippers 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.
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