Making christians: clement of alexandria and the rhetoric of legitimacy
Auteur :
Buell, Denise Kimber
Éditeur :
Princeton University Press
ISBN :
9780691059808
Date de publication :
4 avr. 1999
Dimensions :
25,4 x 19,7 cm
Poids :
482 g
Format :
B315
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
How did second-century Christians vie with each other in seeking to produce an authoritative discourse of Christian identity? This book argues that many early Christians deployed the metaphors of procreation and kinship in the struggle over claims to represent the truth of Christian interpretation, practice, and doctrine.