Buell, Denise Kimber, 1965-
Why this new race ethnic reasoning in early Christianity / [electronic resource] : Denise Kimber Buell. - New York : Columbia University Press, c2005. - xiv, 257 p. ; 24 cm. - Gender, theory, and religion . - Gender, theory, and religion. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-250) and indexes.
"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.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2009.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Race--Religious aspects--Christianity--History of doctrines--Early church, ca. 30-600.
Ethnicity--Religious aspects--Christianity--History of doctrines--Early church, ca. 30-600.
Identification (Religion)--History of doctrines--Early church, ca. 30-600.
Electronic books.
BR195.R37 / B84 2005eb
270.1/089
Why this new race ethnic reasoning in early Christianity / [electronic resource] : Denise Kimber Buell. - New York : Columbia University Press, c2005. - xiv, 257 p. ; 24 cm. - Gender, theory, and religion . - Gender, theory, and religion. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-250) and indexes.
"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.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2009.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Race--Religious aspects--Christianity--History of doctrines--Early church, ca. 30-600.
Ethnicity--Religious aspects--Christianity--History of doctrines--Early church, ca. 30-600.
Identification (Religion)--History of doctrines--Early church, ca. 30-600.
Electronic books.
BR195.R37 / B84 2005eb
270.1/089