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The Making of the Abrahamic Religions in Late Antiquity (Hardcover)
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The Making of the Abrahamic Religions in Late Antiquity (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Studies In 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, much more common than the first, 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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