Continuity And Discontinuity In Early Christian Apologetics

Author : Jörg Ulrich,Anders-Christian Jacobsen,Maijastina Kahlos
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Apologetics
ISBN : 3631579764

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Continuity and Discontinuity in Early Christian Apologetics by Jörg Ulrich,Anders-Christian Jacobsen,Maijastina Kahlos Pdf

This book contains the contributions to a workshop on apologetics in early Christianity which took place at the Fifteenth International Conference on Patristic Studies in Oxford in the summer of 2007. The workshop was arranged by scholars from Germany, Finland and Denmark who had for some time worked together in a project on early Christian apologetics. The aim of the workshop was thus to present and discuss some of the results and still unsolved problems which arose from this project. The book presents the contributions to the workshop. Hereby the editors hope to reach a larger audience and thus to be able to further the discussion of the topic of early Christian apologetics.

Author : Morna Dorothy Hooker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015021953917

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Continuity and Discontinuity by Morna Dorothy Hooker Pdf

Author : Morna D. Hooker
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532643897

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Continuity and Discontinuity by Morna D. Hooker Pdf

“In the course of time the antagonism between Jew and Christian became so bitter that Christians began to behave like cuckoos, or like tycoons who had taken over the company. So concerned were they with their own position in God’s scheme of salvation that they ceased to ask fundamental questions about God’s purpose for ‘Israel according to the flesh.’ They forgot that poignant verse in Romans in which Paul declares: ‘I could wish that I myself were accursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my kinsmen by race.’ For by the time that the church had become a predominantly Gentile community, it had been cut off, not from Christ, but from Paul’s kinsmen. I have been attempting in these lectures to understand the situation of those who wrestled with the problem of relating old and new in the first years of the Christian era: if we wish to understand the origins of our faith, then clearly it is essential to explore the context in which it was first formulated. It may well be that the way in which these men and women related old and new may be of help to Christians today who experience the tension between past tradition and present experience. It may be that a better understanding of what was going on as the Christian community sought to establish its own identity could affect our attitudes to questions concerning Jewish-Christian relationships today.”

Author : Stamenka Antonova
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004306240

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Barbarian or Greek? by Stamenka Antonova Pdf

An examination of the charge of barbarism against the early Christians in the context of ancient rhetorical practices and mechanisms of othering, marginalization and persecution in the Roman Empire.

Author : Philip F. Esler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1250 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351678292

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The Early Christian World by Philip F. Esler Pdf

Since its publication in 2000, The Early Christian World has come to be regarded by scholars, students and the general reader as one of the most informative and accessible works in English on the origins, development, character and major figures of early Christianity. In this new edition, the strengths of the first edition are retained. These include the book’s attractive architecture that initially takes a reader through the context and historical development of early Christianity; the essays in critical areas such as community formation, everyday experience, the intellectual and artistic heritage, and external and internal challenges; and the profiles on the most influential early Christian figures. The book also preserves its strong stress on the social reality of early Christianity and continues its distinctive use of hundreds of illustrations and maps to bring that world to life. Yet the years that have passed since the first edition was published have seen great advances made in our understanding of early Christianity in its world. This new edition fully reflects these developments and provides the reader with authoritative, lively and up-to-date access to the early Christian world. A quarter of the text is entirely new and the remaining essays have all been carefully revised and updated by their authors. Some of the new material relates to Christian culture (including book culture, canonical and non-canonical scriptures, saints and hagiography, and translation across cultures). But there are also new essays on: Jewish and Christian interaction in the early centuries; ritual; the New Testament in Roman Britain; Manichaeism; Pachomius the Great and Gregory of Nyssa. This new edition will serve its readers for many years to come.

Author : Adriana Destro,Mauro Pesce
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004337664

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From Jesus to his First Followers: Continuity and Discontinuity by Adriana Destro,Mauro Pesce Pdf

From Jesus to His First Followers represents the process of transformation that began after Jesus’ death. Continuity and discontinuity between the early groups of followers and Jesus are primarily examined in the religious practices.

Author : Doug E. Taylor
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725255234

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Jesus Before Constantine by Doug E. Taylor Pdf

That’s now, but what about then? There is much diversity in Christianity today in terms of what constitutes necessary core beliefs, but what can we know about the earliest Christianity? Until the major councils began in the fourth century, were all who claimed to be Christian considered part of the church, or was there more to it than just claiming a name? Is there evidence for how the church understood core and necessary beliefs prior to Constantine’s arrival in history and the Council of Nicea in AD 325? This book examines such questions. Using only those materials that are accepted by most scholars on the subject, whether they are Christian or not, and focusing on the period from AD 30–250, a picture emerges showing what Christians held as a core belief as well as how flexible they were on this belief. Only after identifying where the church stood in this period can we begin to understand whether others such as Ebionites, Docetists, and Marcionites would have been accepted as Christian. A case is made based on writings from the church, the Nag Hammadi, and a completely secular tool from the twentieth century to find the conclusion to this question.

Author : Elaine Graham
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498284141

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Apologetics without Apology by Elaine Graham Pdf

Against many expectations, religion has not vanished from Western culture. People are troubled and fascinated in equal measure by this new visibility and are unsure whether it is right to (re)incorporate the vocabulary of faith into our common life. This unprecedented co-existence of religion and secularism is sometimes termed the "postsecular," and in this book Elaine Graham considers some of its implications for the public witness of Christianity. She argues that everyone, from church leaders, theologians, local activists, and campaigners, needs to learn again how to "speak Christian" in these contexts. They need to articulate credible theological justifications for their involvement in public life and to justify the very relevance of their faith to a culture that no longer grants automatic privilege or credence. This entails a retrieval of the ancient practice of apologetics, in order to encourage and equip Christians to defend and commend their core principles and convictions in public. This "new apologetics" involves discerning the actions of God in the world, participating in the praxis of God's mission and bearing witness in word and deed. Rather than being an adversarial or argumentative process, this is an invitation to dialogue and to the rejuvenation of our public life.

Author : David E. Nyström
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783161557613

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The Apology of Justin Martyr by David E. Nyström Pdf

In his Apology, Justin Martyr uses some major apologetic strategies to defend Christianity. These are the 'logos doctrine', the 'theft theory', the 'proof from prophecy' and the arguments from demons. David E. Nyström analyses them in order to create a picture of how they work together, rhetorically and literarily, in Justin's grand argument.

Author : Stefana Dan Laing
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781493406678

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Retrieving History (Evangelical Ressourcement) by Stefana Dan Laing Pdf

This volume introduces the early Christian ideas of history and history writing and shows their value for developing Christian communities of the patristic era. It examines the ways early Christians related and transmitted their history: apologetics, martyrdom accounts, sacred biography, and the genre of church history proper. The book shows that exploring the lives and writings of both men and women of the ancient church helps readers understand how Christian identity is rooted in the faithful work of preceding generations. It also offers a corrective to the individualistic and ahistorical tendencies within contemporary Christianity.

Author : D.H. Williams
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190620523

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Defending and Defining the Faith by D.H. Williams Pdf

In Early Christian Apologetics, D.H. Williams offers a comprehensive presentation of Christian apologetic literature from the second to the fifth century, considering each writer within the intellectual context of the day. Williams argues that most apologies were not directed at a pagan readership. In most cases, he says, ancient apologetics had a double object: to instruct the Christian and to persuade weak Christians or non-Christians who were sympathetic to Christian claims. Traditionally, scholars of apologetics have focused on the context of persecution in the pre-Constantinian period. By following the links in the intellectual trajectory up though the early fifth century, Williams prompts deeper reflection on the process of Christian self-definition in late antiquity. Taken cumulatively, he finds, apologetic literature was in fact integral to the formation of the Christian identity in the Roman world.

Author : Drew W. Billings
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-25
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 9781107187856

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Acts of the Apostles and the Rhetoric of Roman Imperialism by Drew W. Billings Pdf

Billings demonstrates that Acts was written in conformity with broader representational trends found on imperial monuments and in the epigraphic record of the early second century.

Author : Jeremy Hudson
Publisher : James Clarke & Company
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780227907344

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Worshipping a Crucified Man by Jeremy Hudson Pdf

By the mid-second century Christian writers were engaging in debates with educated audiences from non-Jewish Graeco-Roman cultural backgrounds. A remarkable feature of some of the texts from this period is how extensively they refer to the Jewish scriptures, even though those scriptures were unfamiliar to non-Jewish Graeco-Romans. In Worshipping a Crucified Man, Jeremy Hudson explores for the first time why this should have been so by examining three works by Christian converts originally educated in Graeco-Roman traditions: Justin Martyr's First Apology, Tatian's Oratio and Theophilus of Antioch's Ad Autolycum. Hudson considers their literary strategies, their use of quotations and allusions and how they present the Jewish scriptures; all against the background of the Graeco-Roman literary culture familiar to both authors and audiences. The scriptures are presented as a critically defining feature of Christianity, instrumental in shaping the way the new religion presented itself, as it strove to engage with, and challenge, the cultural traditions of the Graeco-Roman world.

Author : Geoffrey Dunn,Wendy Mayer
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004301573

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Christians Shaping Identity from the Roman Empire to Byzantium by Geoffrey Dunn,Wendy Mayer Pdf

Christians Shaping Identity explores different ways in which Christians constructed their own identity and that of the society around them to the 12th century C.E. It also illustrates how modern readings of that past continue to shape Christian identity.

Author : L. Stephanie Cobb
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780520293359

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Divine Deliverance by L. Stephanie Cobb Pdf

Imprint -- Subvention -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Bodies in Pain: Ancient and Modern Horizons of Expectation -- 2. Text and Audience: Activating and Obstructing Expectations -- 3. Divine Analgesia: Painlessness in a Pain-Filled World -- 4. Whose Pain?: Pain as a Locus of Meaning in Christian Martyr Texts -- 5. Narratives and Counternarratives: Discourse and Early Christian Martyr Texts -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index