Book
Explorations in the Second Christian Century
Texts, Groups, Ideas, Voices
-
Judith M. Lieu
Language:
English
Published/Copyright:
2025
Purchasable on brill.com
Purchase Book
About this book
As allegiance to Jesus Christ spread across the Roman Empire in the second century, writings, practices, and ideas erupted in a creative maelstrom. Many of the patterns of practice and belief that later become normative emerged, in the midst of debate and argument with neighbours who shared or who rejected that allegiance. Authoritative texts, principles of argument, attitudes to received authority, the demands of allegiance in the face of opposition, identifying who belonged and who did not, all demanded attention. These essays explore those divergent voices, and the no-less diverse and lively debates they have inspired in recent scholarship.
Author / Editor information
Judith M. Lieu, FBA, DTheol (h.c.) is Lady Margaret's Professor Emerita at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Robinson College, Cambridge. She has published widely on the emergence of a Christian identity in relationship to Jews and pagans in the second century, on heresy and Marcion, as well as on the Johannine literature.
Topics
Publishing information
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
November 11, 2024
eBook ISBN:
9789004715738
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Main content:
482
eBook ISBN:
9789004715738
Keywords for this book
Pauline; heresy; Judaism; diaspora; Justin Martyr; Tertullian; Irenaeus; Gospels; Marcion; martyrdom; apologetics; The Parting of the Ways; women
Audience(s) for this book
All interested in the development of early Christianity in its social, textual, and intellectual culture, including scholars and students; libraries
