Why this new race [electronic resource] : ethnic reasoning in early Christianity / Denise Kimber Buell.
By: Buell, Denise Kimber.
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BookSeries: Gender, theory, and religion: Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press, c2005Description: xiv, 257 p. ; 24 cm.Subject(s): 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. 30-600Genre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 270.1/089 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 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.
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