Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Paget, James Carleton
• Lieu, Judith

Description

xi, 354 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

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"--

Subject

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

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings.

Note

• "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."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-348) and index.

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-à-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.

Call Number

JFE 18-2153

ISBN

• 9781107165229
• 1107165229

LCCN

• 2016059957
• 40027273211

OCLC

959262226

Title

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

Publisher

Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-348) and index.

Connect to:

Available to Stanford-affiliated users.

Chronological Term

30-600

Added Author

Paget, James Carleton, editor.

Lieu, Judith, editor.

Other Standard Identifier

40027273211

Research Call Number

JFE 18-2153