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The Making of the Abrahamic Religions in Late Antiquity (Paperback)
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The Making of the Abrahamic Religions in Late Antiquity (Paperback)
Series: Oxford Studies in the Abrahamic Religions
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This book presents how ancient Christianity must be understood from
the viewpoint of the history of religions in late antiquity. The
continuation of biblical prophecy runs like a thread from Jesus
through Mani to Muhammad. And yet this thread, arguably the single
most important characteristic of the Abrahamic movement, often
remains outside the mainstream, hidden, as it were, since it
generates heresy. The figures of the Gnostic, the Holy man, and the
mystic are all sequels of the Israelite prophet. They reflect a
mode of religiosity that is characterized by high intensity. It is
centripetal and activist by nature and emphasizes sectarianism and
polemics, esoteric knowledge, or gnosis and charisma. The other
mode of religiosity, obviously much more common than the first one,
is centrifugal and irenic. It favours an ecumenical attitude,
contents itself with a widely shared faith, or pistis, and
reflects, in Weberian parlance, the routinisation of the new
religious movement. This is the mode of priests and bishops, rather
than that of martyrs and holy men. These two main modes of
religion, high versus low intensity, exist simultaneously, and
cross the boundaries of religious communities. They offer a tool
permitting us to follow the transformations of religion in late
antiquity in general, and in ancient Christianity in particular,
without becoming prisoners of the traditional categories of
Patristic literature. Through the dialectical relationship between
these two modes of religiosity, one can follow the complex
transformations of ancient Christianity in its broad religious
context.
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