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Christian Theology and Its Institutions in the Early Roman Empire - Prolegomena to a History of Early Christian Theology (Hardcover)
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Christian Theology and Its Institutions in the Early Roman Empire - Prolegomena to a History of Early Christian Theology (Hardcover)
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Tension between unity and diversity plagues any attempt to recount
the development of earliest Christianity. Explanations run the
gamutafrom asserting the presence of a fully formed and accepted
unity at the beginning of Christianity to the hypothesis that
understands orthodox unity as a later imposition upon Christianity
by Rome. In Christian Theology and Its Institutions in the Early
Roman Empire , Christoph Markschies seeks to unravel the complex
problem of unity and diversity by carefully examining the
institutional settings for the development of Christian theology.
Specifically, Markschies contends that theological diversity is
closely bound up with institutional diversity. Markschies clears
the ground by tracing how previous studies fail to appreciate the
critical role that diverse Christian institutions played in
creating and establishing the very theological ideas that later
came to define them. He next examines three distinct forms of
institutional lifeathe Christian institutions of (higher) learning,
prophecy, and worshipaand their respective contributions to
Christianity's development. Markschies then focuses his attention
on the development of the New Testament canon, demonstrating how
different institutions developed their own respective "canons,"
while challenging views that assign a decisive role to Athanasius,
Marcion, or the Gnostics. Markschies concludes by arguing that the
complementary model of the "identity" and "plurality" of early
Christianity is better equipped to address the question of unity
and diversity than Walter Bauer's cultural Protestant model of
"orthodoxy and heresy" or the Jesuit model of the "inculturation"
of Christianity.
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