Barbarian Philosophy

The Religious Revolution of Early Christianity

by Guy G. Stroumsa

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Extent: 345 pages

Publisher: Mohr Siebeck

Subjects: Biblical Studies, Religious Studies

Series: Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament

Series volume number: 112

Language: English

Hardback (Out of print)

(January 1999)

ISBN: 9783161471056

Price: $125.00

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In the Roman Empire, Christianity came into being as a radical religious movement. This new concept of religion offered dramatic social and anthropological implications and shaped medieval perceptions.Guy G. Stroumsa examines from various angles the radical nature of some of the early Christian beliefs and their dialectical transformation in the first centuries. He looks at the attitudes of Christians to non-Christians and the growth of intolerance in late antiquity. In addition he shows the extreme character of dualist trends, the role of which can be compared to ‘a revolution within the revolution’.

Radical religion Early Christianity as radical religion - The Christian hermeneutical revolution and its double helix - Celsus, Origen, and the nature of religion - Philosophy of the barbarians: the birth of Christian ethnology Living with the other Internalization and intolerance in early Christianity - Tertullian on idolatry: the limits of tolerance - Religious contacts in Byzantine Palestine - From anti-judaism to anti-semitism in early Christianity? Shaping the person From repentance to penance: Tertullians' de poenitentia - caro salutis cardo : shaping the person in early Christianity - Dreams and magic among pagans and Christians - Dreams and visions in early Christianity - Madness and Divinization: Simeon the Holy Fool Radical dualism Gnostic justice and antinomianism: Epiphanes' On Justice - Jewish and Gnostic trends among the Audians - Purification and its discontents: Mani's rejection of baptism - Mani's two souls Envoi Mystical Jerusalems

  • By (author) Guy G Stroumsa