In Search of First-Century Christianity (Routledge Revivals) - Hardcover

Barnhart, Joe E.; Kraeger, Linda T.

 
9781138716117: In Search of First-Century Christianity (Routledge Revivals)
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ISBN 10: 1138716111 ISBN 13: 9781138716117
Publisher: Routledge, 2021

Synopsis

Originally pulished in 2000, In Search of First Century Christianity contends that Christianity in the first century had no founder but rather evolved as a convergence of many forces: political disillusionment, cultural mutations, religious and theological motifs, psychosocial losses and new expectations. Moving on from an examination of the foundations of historical and literary criticism in the Renaissance, and a detailed study of two writers in antiquity,Thucydides and Chariton, to examine writings in the period between Plato and the Gospel of Mark, the authors then explore the writing of Paul and the stories told in the Gospels. With the early Christians drawing from both Greek and Hebrew sources, Barnhart and Kraeger propose that, like Plato, Paul and other Christians generated an "anti-tragic theatre" gospel with the Jesus figure being the creation of a culture steeped in an anthropomorphic, metaphysical view of the world.

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Linda T. Kraeger Joe E. Barnhart

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2021
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1138716111
ISBN 13 
9781138716117
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
226

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