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Types of authority in formative Christianity and Judaism
- Title
- Types of authority in formative Christianity and Judaism / Bruce Chilton and Jacob Neusner.
- Author
- Chilton, Bruce.
- Publication
- London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.
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- Additional Authors
- Neusner, Jacob, 1932-2016.
- Description
- xiii, 191 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- "Two well-known scholars, in New Testament and Rabbinic Judaism respectively, ask the question: what does it mean to translate a theory of God's presence in the social order into a concrete doctrine of everyday authority? What sort of politics, what theory of ongoing and everyday religious encounter, and what modes of persuasive intellectual exchange embody the conviction that God is present among us and that our community is made holy by obedient response to that Presence? The holy community, the presence of God's representatives on earth, and the compelling power of certain kinds of evidence and arguments - these provide the outlines of an answer to that question. Politics come first. But both communities also looked to the authority of God embodied in persons, validated by miraculous events, or otherwise certified by gifts of the spirit. And, finally, both Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism deemed Christ and the Torah respectively to embody the logos of reason or the rules of right thought. Both maintained that well-expounded, probative evidence and compelling argument formed the best source of authority - compulsion exercised from within, by intellect."--Jacket.
- Subject
- 30-600
- 0030-0600
- 0070-0600
- Authority > Religious aspects > Comparative studies
- Authority > Religious aspects > Christianity > History of doctrines > Early church, ca. 30-600
- Authority > Religious aspects > Judaism > History
- Judaism > History of doctrines
- Authority > Religious aspects
- Authority > Religious aspects > Judaism
- Rabbinismus
- Autorität
- Christentum
- Gezag
- Gezag van de bijbel
- Vroege kerk
- Rabbijnse literatuur
- Christentum > Judentum > Geschichte Altertum
- Judentum > Christentum > Geschichte Altertum
- Frühchristentum
- Geschichte
- Kirchengeschichte
- Rabbinismus
- Authority > Religious aspects > Christianity > History of doctrines > Early Church, 30-600
- Judaism > Doctrines > History
- Christianisme > Relations > Judaïsme
- Judaïsme > Relations > Christianisme
- Autorité > Aspect religieux > Christianisme > Histoire des doctrines > 30-600 (Église primitive)
- Autorité > Aspect religieux > Judaïsme > Histoire
- Geschichte 30-600
- Genre/Form
- Comparative studies.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 178-189) and index.
- Contents
- pt. 1: Institutional authority. 1. Recovering Eden: the theoretical politics of Rabbinic Judaism -- 2. Apostles and bishops: a polarity of power in earliest Christianity -- pt. 2: Charismatic authority. 3. What ended with prophecy, and what happened then in Rabbinic Judaism -- 4. Charismata of guidance in primitive and early Christianity -- pt. 3: Scriptural authority. 5. The commanding voice of Scripture in Rabbinic Judaism -- 6. The conciliar voice of Scripture in Christianity.
- ISBN
- 0415173256
- 9780415173254
- 0415173264
- 9780415173261
- LCCN
- 98008112
- OCLC
- ocm39189775
- 39189775
- SCSB-575225
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library