Rethinking Early Christian Identity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rethinking Early Christian Identity write by Maia Kotrosits. This book was released on 2015. Rethinking Early Christian Identity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Revision of author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Union Theological Seminary, 2013 under title: Affect, violence, and belonging in early Christianity.
The Lives of Objects
The Lives of Objects - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Lives of Objects write by Maia Kotrosits. This book was released on 2020. The Lives of Objects available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Judaism and Christianity as condensed illustrations of how people across time struggle with the materiality of life and death. Speaking across many fields, including classics, history, anthropology, literary, gender, and queer studies, the book journeys through the ancient Mediterranean world by way of the myriad physical artifacts that punctuate the transnational history of early Christianity. By bringing a psychoanalytically inflected approach to bear upon her materialist studies of religious history, Kotrosits makes a contribution not only to our understanding of Judaism and early Christianity, but also our sense of how different disciplines construe historical knowledge, and how we as people and thinkers understand our own relation to our material and affective past"--
Why This New Race
Why This New Race - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Why This New Race write by Denise Buell. This book was released on 2008-08-28. Why This New Race available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Denise Kimber Buell radically rethinks the origins of Christian identity, arguing that race and ethnicity played a central role in early Christian theology. Focusing on texts written before the legalization of Christianity in 313 C.E., including Greek apologetic treatises, martyr narratives, and works by Clement of Alexandria, Origen, Justin Martyr, and Tertullian, Buell shows how philosophers and theologians defined Christians as a distinct group within the Roman world, characterizing Christianness as something both fixed in its essence and fluid in its acquisition through conversion. Buell demonstrates how this view allowed Christians to establish boundaries around the meaning of Christianness and to develop the kind of universalizing claims aimed at uniting all members of the faith. Her arguments challenge generations of scholars who have refused to acknowledge ethnic reasoning in early Christian discourses. They also provide crucial insight into the historical legacy of Christian anti-Semitism and contemporary issues of race.
Christian Figural Reading and the Fashioning of Identity
Christian Figural Reading and the Fashioning of Identity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Christian Figural Reading and the Fashioning of Identity write by David Dawson. This book was released on 2002. Christian Figural Reading and the Fashioning of Identity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This text offers a contribution to one of Christianity's central problems: the understanding and interpretation of scripture specifically, the relationship between the Old Testament and the New.
How Things Feel
How Things Feel - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook How Things Feel write by Maia Kotrosits. This book was released on 2016-11-21. How Things Feel available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This essay is an attempt to do an intellectual history, one of affect theory both within and without biblical studies, as an ecology of thought. It is an “archive of feelings,” a series of thematic portraits, and a description of the landscape of the field of biblical studies through a set of frictions and express discontentments with its legacies, as well as a set of meaningful encounters under its auspices. That landscape is recounted with a fully experiential map, intentionally relativizing those more dominant sources and traditional modes of doing intellectual history. Affect theory and biblical studies, it turns out, both might be described as implicitly, and ambivalently, theological. But biblical studies has not only typically refused explicit theologizing, it has also refused explicit affectivity, and so affect theory presents biblical studies with both its own losses and new and vital possibilities.
