Primitive Christianity
A Survey of Recent Studies and Some New Proposals
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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN: 9780567088109
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 01/12/2003
This is a critical account of the state-of-the-art of scholarship in earliest Christianity, and where and how it should move forward. It offers an authoritative account of contremporary scholarship and evaluates the work of all major scholars in the field, from Britain, America and around the world, as well as a critical analysis of all the published writings in Early Christianity over the last 25 years of the 20th century. The author evaluates all the contributions and defines the most significant areas for future research.
Preface; Preliminary Remarks; 1. An Overview of the Demarcation of Primitive Christianity: The Task and the Method of Description; 2. A Survey and Critique of Recent Conventional Reconstructions of Primitive Christianity; 3. A Survey and Critique of Recent Studies in the Social History of Primitive Christianity; 4. A Survey and Critique of Recent Studies in Primitive Christianity from the Perspective of Feminist Theology; 5. A Survey and Critique of Recent Studies in the Environment of Primitive Christianity; 6. A Survey and Critique of Recent Studies in Primitive Christianity in the Different Centres of Rome; a) Antioch; b) Roma; c) Macedonia; d) Ephesus and Asia Minor; 7. A Survey and Critique of Recent Studies of Individual Problems; Conclusion; Appendices; I. On the Problem of Pre-Christian Gnosticism; II. Gerd Theissen's A Theory of Primitive Christian Religion; Bibliography of work's Discussed; Index of Authors
Review by Matthew R. Hauge, Azusa Pacific University, in Religious Studies Review * Religious Studies Review * Review in German in Theologische Literaturzeitung, 131 (2006) 3 * Theologische Literaturzeitung *