Why this new race : ethnic reasoning in early Christianity

1. Verfasser: Buell, Denise Kimber, 1965-
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: New York : Columbia University Press, 2005.
Umfang/Format: xiv, 257 p. ; 24 cm.
Schriftenreihe: Gender, theory, and religion
Schlagworte:
Inhaltsangabe:
  • "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.