Early Christianity
Anthropology, culture, and early Christian studies There are various levels at which the study of early Christianity may be reco ...
cultures’ religions – as of their social structures or attitudes to gender – must necessarily form an important part of anthropo ...
from students to examination questions. More seriously, however, it can lead to spurious lessons being drawn from history. Anthr ...
and the giving of a voice to those traditionally excluded from its structures on account of gender, race or class. In turn, this ...
anachronistic (e.g. Price 1984: 10–19; Beard and Crawford 1985: 26–7; Feeney 1998: 12–14). Furthermore, it is now considered who ...
not only because of the discovery of new evidence, but because of the application of new approaches to the subject. Early Christ ...
Chapter 2 Tradition and revelation: the historical quest for early Christianity The study of early Christianity is not a new sub ...
Investigations frequently were driven, more or less explicitly, by confessional agendas, as Christians of various persuasions, a ...
Constantine’s conversion to Christianity, which is welcomed as the realization of biblical prophecies of God’s ultimate triumph. ...
of his narrative, as he enumerated the major themes of his work, he highlighted a number of areas where his defence of the churc ...
by some pagan critics who had sought to undermine Christianity’s credibility by casting it as a deviant form of Judaism (Wilken ...
the respect it deserved. It thus contrasted sharply, in Eusebius’ view, with the Jews, whom he blamed collectively for initiatin ...
he chose to emphasize became, moreover, fundamental areas of study for those who investigated early Christianity in later ages, ...
proof of the wonders that had once taken place there, a testimony to the resurrection of the Saviour louder than any voice. (Eus ...
them were not bishops but laymen, they generally preserved Eusebius’ positive appraisal of the role of the empire in God’s plan ...
1981). As part of this interest, church leaders – and, indeed, those seeking to challenge their authority (Cooper 1999) – sponso ...
old gods could only bring disaster upon the empire (Croke and Harries 1982: 28–51). There was plainly a need for a reassessment ...
travelling to Bethlehem at the time of a Roman census, that Jesus had been enrolled as a Roman citizen soon after his birth (Sev ...
medieval authors lacking any reliable information about partic- ular martyrs would indulge audiences with pious fictions. For ex ...
tradition in which Barnabas, the assistant of Paul in Acts, had come to Italy and become Milan’s first bishop. The papacy and it ...
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