In Search of First-Century Christianity Hardback
by Joe E. Barnhart, Linda T. Kraeger
Part of the Routledge Revivals series
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Originally pulished in 2000, In Search of First Century Christianity contends that Christianity in the first century had no founder but rather evolved as a convergence of many forces: political disillusionment, cultural mutations, religious and theological motifs, psychosocial losses and new expectations.
Moving on from an examination of the foundations of historical and literary criticism in the Renaissance, and a detailed study of two writers in antiquity,Thucydides and Chariton, to examine writings in the period between Plato and the Gospel of Mark, the authors then explore the writing of Paul and the stories told in the Gospels.
With the early Christians drawing from both Greek and Hebrew sources, Barnhart and Kraeger propose that, like Plato, Paul and other Christians generated an "anti-tragic theatre" gospel with the Jesus figure being the creation of a culture steeped in an anthropomorphic, metaphysical view of the world.
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- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:15/04/2019
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:226 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:15/04/2019
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- ISBN:9781138716117