Christianity in the second century : themes and developments / [edited by] James Carleton Paget, University of Cambridge, Judith Lieu, University of Cambridge.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Paget, James Carleton, editor, author.

Lieu, Judith, editor, author.

Conference Name:

Christianity in the Second Century : themes and developments (Conference) (2013 : University of Cambridge. Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Church history--Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600--Congresses.

Church history.

Church history--Primitive and early church.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xi, 354 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2017.

Summary:

"Christianity in the Second Century shows how academic study on this critical period of Christian development has undergone substantial change over the last thirty years. The second century is often considered to be a time during which the Christian church moved relentlessly towards forms of institutionalisation and consolidated itself against so-called heretics"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction / Judith Lieu, James Carleton Paget

Empires, diasporas and the emergence of religions / Greg Woolf

The Mediterranean Jewish diaspora in the second century / Tessa Rajak

The rabbis and their rivals in the second century CE / Philip Alexander

Church and synagogue vis-�a-vis Roman rule in the second century / William Horbury

The second century from the perspective of the New Testament / James Carleton Paget

Continuity and change in second century Christianity : a narrative against the trend / Lewis Ayres

"The Gnostic myth" : how does its demise impact 21st century historiography of Christianity's second century? / Karen King

The Gnostic myth / Mark Edwards

Modelling second century Christian theology : Christian theology as philosophia / Winrich Lohr

Galen and the Christians : texts and authority in the second century AD / Rebecca Flemming

"Authoritative texts" and how to handle them : some reflections on an ambiguous concept and its use in second-century Christian literature / Joseph Verheyden

Belief and practice in Graeco-Roman religiosity : Plutarch, De Iside and Osiride 379c / Teresa Morgan

Lot oracles and fate : on early Christianity among others in the second century / Laura Nasrallah

Christians as a "third race" : is ethnicity at issue? / Erich Gruen

Ethnic discourse in early Christianity / Oskar Skarasuane

Pagan attitudes / John North

"Away with the atheists!" : Christianity and militant atheism in the early empire / Tim Whitmarsh

Modelling the second century as the age of the laboratory / Judith Lieu.

Notes:

"This volume is the result of a conference, entitled 'The Christian Second Century', which was held between March 14th and 16th, 2013, at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), University of Cambridge."--acknowledgements.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781107165229

1107165229

OCLC:

959262226

Publisher Number:

99972580244