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Author Buell, Denise Kimber, 1965-

Title Why this new race [electronic resource] : ethnic reasoning in early Christianity / Denise Kimber Buell.

Imprint New York : Columbia University Press, c2005.

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Description xiv, 257 p.
Series Gender, theory, and religion
Gender, theory, and religion.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-250) and indexes.
Contents "Worshippers of so-called Gods, Jews, and Christians" : religion in ethnoracial discourses -- "We were before the foundation of the world" : appeals to the past in early Christian self-definition -- "We, quarried from the bowels of Christ, are the true Genos of Israel" : Christian claims to peoplehood -- "A Genos saved by nature" : ethnic reasoning as intra-Christian polemic -- "From every race of humans" : ethnic reasoning, conversion, and Christian universalism.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Race -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History of doctrines -- Early church, approximately 30-600.
Ethnicity -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History of doctrines -- Early church, approximately 30-600.
Identification (Religion) -- History of doctrines -- Early church, approximately 30-600.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 0231133340 (cloth : alk. paper)

 
    
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