In Search of First-Century Christianity Routledge Revivals Series
Auteurs : Barnhart Joe E., Kraeger Linda T.
Originally pulished in 2000, In Search of First Century Christianity contends that Christianity in the first century had no founder but rather evolved as a convergence of many forces: political disillusionment, cultural mutations, religious and theological motifs, psychosocial losses and new expectations. Moving on from an examination of the foundations of historical and literary criticism in the Renaissance, and a detailed study of two writers in antiquity,Thucydides and Chariton, to examine writings in the period between Plato and the Gospel of Mark, the authors then explore the writing of Paul and the stories told in the Gospels. With the early Christians drawing from both Greek and Hebrew sources, Barnhart and Kraeger propose that, like Plato, Paul and other Christians generated an "anti-tragic theatre" gospel with the Jesus figure being the creation of a culture steeped in an anthropomorphic, metaphysical view of the world.
1. Introduction. 2. The Renaissance and the Bible. 3. Thucydides' History and Chariton's Novel. 4. Paul the Apostle: Problems in the Paradigm. 5. Paul, the Hellenistic Jew. 6. Paul and Two Jews of Alexandria. 7. Paul and 2 Esdras. 8. Paul on Sinful Desires and Divine Providence. 9. An Apocalyptic Vision of Ultimate Power. 10. Versions of the Jesus Story. 11. Borg's Jesus, Anderson's Christ. 12. Jesus as King. 13. Is Jesus a Legend? 14. Tragedy and Gospel.
Date de parution : 10-2020
15x21.6 cm
Date de parution : 04-2019
15.2x22.9 cm
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Mots-clés :
Young Man; christianity; Omni Present; first-century; Richard III; religion; Seleucid Ruler Antiochus; search; Nag Hammadi; first century Christianity; Nag Hammadi Library; Christian writings; Antiochus IV Epiphanes; Christian theology; Virgil’s Fourth Eclogue; historical figure; Chopin; Paul's letters; BCE History; Paul The Apostle; Earthly Jesus; Fourth Gospel; Hyam Maccoby; Historical Jesus; Jesus Seminar; Narrative Fiction Prose; Philo Judaeus; Apocalyptic Jesus; Plato’s Cosmology; Primordial Tradition; Apocalyptic Literature; Cosmic Christ