Why This New Race : : Ethnic Reasoning in Early Christianity / / Denise Buell.
Why This New Race offers a radical new way of thinking about the origins of Christian identity. Conventional histories have understood Christianity as a religion that from its beginnings sought to transcend ethnic and racial distinctions. Denise Kimber Buell challenges this view by revealing the cen...
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Buell, Denise, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Why This New Race : Ethnic Reasoning in Early Christianity / Denise Buell. New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2005] ©2005 1 online resource (280 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 "Worshippers of So-Called Gods, Jews, and Christians" -- 2 "We Were Before the Foundation of the World" -- 3 "We, Quarried from the Bowels of Christ, Are the True Genos of Israel" -- 4 "A Genos Saved by Nature" -- 5 "From Every Race of Humans" -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index of Ancient Sources -- General Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Why This New Race offers a radical new way of thinking about the origins of Christian identity. Conventional histories have understood Christianity as a religion that from its beginnings sought to transcend ethnic and racial distinctions. Denise Kimber Buell challenges this view by revealing the centrality of ethnicity and race in early definitions of Christianity. Buell's readings of various texts consider the use of "ethnic reasoning" to depict Christianness as more than a set of shared religious practices and beliefs. By asking themselves, "Why this new race?" Christians positioned themselves as members of an ethnos or genos distinct from Jews, Romans, and Greeks. Buell focuses on texts written before Christianity became legal in 313 C.E., including Greek apologetic treatises, martyr narratives, and works by Clement of Alexandria, Origen, and Tertullian. Philosophers and theologians used ethnic reasoning to define Christians as a distinct people within classical and ancient Near East society and in intra-Christian debates about what constituted Christianness. Many characterized Christianness as both fixed and fluid-it had a real essence (fixed) but could be acquired through conversion (fluid). Buell demonstrates how this dynamic view of race and ethnicity allowed Christians to establish boundaries around the meaning of Christianness and to develop universalizing claims that all should join the Christian people. In addressing questions of historiography, Buell analyzes why generations of scholars have refused to acknowledge ethnic reasoning in early Christian discourses. Moreover, Buell's arguments about the importance of ethnicity and religion in early Christianity provide insights into the historical legacy of Christian anti-Semitism as well as contemporary issues of race. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022) Ethnicity Religious aspects Christianity History of doctrines Early church, ca. 30-600. Identification (Religion) History of doctrines Early church, ca. 30-600. Race Religious aspects Christianity History of doctrines Early church, ca. 30-600. RELIGION / Christianity / History. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110442472 print 9780231133357 https://doi.org/10.7312/buel13334 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780231508209 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780231508209/original |
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