Why this new race : ethnic reasoning in early Christianity
1. Verfasser: |
Buell, Denise Kimber, 1965-
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Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
New York :
Columbia University Press,
2005.
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Umfang/Format: |
xiv, 257 p. ; 24 cm. |
Schriftenreihe: |
Gender, theory, and religion
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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.