Why This New Race: Ethnic Reasoning In Early Christianity
by Denise Kimber Buell /
2005 / English / EPUB
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"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." "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 provide insights into the historical legacy of Christian anti-Semitism as well as contemporary issues of race." BOOK JACKET.
