Why This New Race: Ethnic Reasoning in Early Christianity 9780231508209, 0231133340, 0231508204
Why This New Race offers a radical new way of thinking about the origins of Christian identity. Conventional histories h
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English Pages 280 pages Year 2005
Table of contents :
Frontmatter --
Contents --
Abbreviations --
Preface --
Introduction --
1 "Worshippers of So-Called Gods, Jews, and Christians": Religion in Ethnoracial Discourses --
2 "We Were Before the Foundation of the World": Appeals to the Past in Early Christian Self-Definition --
3 "We, Quarried from the Bowels of Christ, Are the True Genos of Israel": Christian Claims to Peoplehood --
4 "A Genos Saved by Nature": Ethnic Reasoning as Intra-Christian Polemic --
5 "From Every Race of Humans": Ethnic Reasoning, Conversion, and Christian Universalism --
Epilogue --
Notes --
Bibliography --
Index of Ancient Sources --
General Index.
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