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Christian Identity in the Jewish and Graeco-Roman World (Paperback, New edition)
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Christian Identity in the Jewish and Graeco-Roman World (Paperback, New edition)
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'I am a Christian' is the confession of the martyrs of early
Christian texts and, no doubt, of many others; but what did this
confession mean, and how was early Christian identity constructed?
This innovative study sets the emergence of Christian identity in
the first two centuries, as it is constructed by the broad range of
surviving literature, within the wider context of Jewish and
Graeco-Roman identity. It uses a number of models from contemporary
constructionist views of identity formation to explore how what
comes to be seen as 'Christian' literature creates a sense of what
to be 'a Christian' means, and traces both continuities and
discontinuities with the ways in which Jewish and Graeco-Roman
identity were also being constructed through their texts. It seeks
to acknowledge the centrality of texts in shaping early
Christianity, historically as well as in our perception of it,
while also exploring how we might move from those texts to the
individuals and communities who preserved them. Such an approach
challenges more traditional emphases on the development of
institutions, whether structures or credal and ethical
formulations, which often fail to recognize the rhetorical function
of the texts on which they draw, and the uncertainties of how well
these reflect the actual practice and experience of individuals and
communities. While building on recent recognition of the diversity
of early Christianity, the book goes on to explore the question
whether it is possible to speak of a distinctive Christian identity
across both the range of early texts and as a pressing historical
and theological question in the contemporary world.
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