Christianity in the Second Century Themes and Developments
- New York Cambridge University Press 2017
- 354p
includes index and biblioraphy
1. Contexts Empires, Diasporas and the Emergence of Religions...........................25 The moditerranean Jewish Diaspora in the Second Century ........39 The rabbis and their Rivals in the Second century CE.............57 Church and synagogue vis-a-vis Roman Rule in the second century ..71 2. Discerning continuity and discontinuity in Early christianity ...........89 The second century from perspective of the new Testament .........91 Continuity and change in Second-century christianity : A narrative against the trend .....106 The gnostic myth: How does its demise impact Twenty - first century Historiography of Christianity`s Second century .........122 The gnowstic myth ..........137 Modelling second- century christian theology : Christian theology as philosophia...........151 III. Interpreting texts and engaging in Practice .........169 Galen and the christians: Texts and Authority in the second century A D ..........171 Authoriative texts and how to handle them : Some reflections on an Ambiguous concept and its some reflections on an Ambiguous concept and its Use in second-century christian literature ........188 Belief and practice in graeco-roman Religiosity : Plutarch, De inside and osiride 379c......200 Lot oracles and fate : On ealry christianity among others in the second century ..............214 4. Modelling identities Christians as a Third Race : Is thnicity at Issue ?....233 Ethnic Discourse in Early christianity .....250 Pagan Attitudes......265 Away with the atheists, Christianity and militant atheism in the early empire ...281 Modelling the second century as the age of the laboratory ..........294