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Author:

Buell, Denise Kimber, 1965-

Title:

Why this new race : ethnic reasoning in early Christianity / Denise Kimber Buell.

Publisher:

Columbia University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2005

Description:

xiv, 257 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Race--History of doctrines--Christianity--History of doctrines--Early church, ca. 30-600.
Ethnicity--History of doctrines--Christianity--History of doctrines--Early church, ca. 30-600.
Identification (Religion)--History of doctrines--Early church, ca. 30-600.
Etnisch bewustzijn.
Vroege kerk.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-250) and indexes.

Contents:

"Worshippers of so-called Gods, Jews, and Christians" : religion in ethnoracial discourses -- "We were before the foundation of the world" : appeals to the past in early Christian self-definition -- "We, quarried from the bowels of Christ, are the true Genos of Israel" : Christian claims to peoplehood -- "A Genos saved by nature" : ethnic reasoning as intra-Christian polemic -- "From every race of humans" : ethnic reasoning, conversion, and Christian universalism.

Series:

Gender, theory, and religion

ISBN:

9780231133340 (cloth : alk. paper)
0231133340 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)57506731

LCCN:

2005041278

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)