Making Christians : : Clement of Alexandria and the Rhetoric of Legitimacy / / Denise Kimber Buell.
How did second-century Christians vie with each other in seeking to produce an authoritative discourse of Christian identity? In this innovative book, Denise Buell argues that many early Christians deployed the metaphors of procreation and kinship in the struggle over claims to represent the truth o...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020] ©1999 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (224 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- ABBREVIATIONS
- INTRODUCTION Origin Stories as Authorizing Discourse
- CHAPTER ONE Tracing Procreation: The Origins of Origin Stories
- CHAPTER TWO The Social Force of Metaphors for Procreation
- CHAPTER THREE Sowing Knowledge: Procreation and Pedagogy
- CHAPTER FOUR Defending Teaching Methods with Procreative Language
- CHAPTER FIVE "Few Are Like Their Fathers": The Rhetoric of Genealogy and Intra-Christian Polemic
- CHAPTER SIX Allegiance to the "True Father": Kinship Metaphors as Border Discourse
- CHAPTER SEVEN A Rhetoric of Christian Unity: Christians as Children of the Father of All
- CHAPTER EIGHT Paideia and the Paidagōgos
- CHAPTER NINE Perfect Children: Drinking the Logos-Milk of Christ
- CHAPTER TEN "The Milk of the Father": "Only Those Who Suckle This Breast Are Truly Blessed"
- CONCLUSION Reflections on the Future of Origin Stories
- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX OF ANCIENT PASSAGES CITED
- GENERAL INDEX