Synopses & Reviews
This is a critical account of the state-of-the-art of scholarship in earliest Christianity, and where and how it should move forward. It offers an authoritative account of contemporary scholarship and evaluates the work of all major scholars in the field, from Britain, America and around the world, as well as a critical analysis of all the published writings in Early Christianity over the last 25 years of the 20th century. Gerd Lüdemann evaluates all the contributions and defines the most significant areas for future research.
Synopsis
This is a critical account of the state-of-the-art of scholarship in earliest Christianity, and where and how it should move forward. It offers an authoritative account of contemporary scholarship and evaluates the work of all major scholars in the field, from Britain, America and around the world, as well as a critical analysis of all the published writings in Early Christianity over the last 25 years of the 20th century. Gerd Lüdemann evaluates all the contributions and defines the most significant areas for future research.
Table of Contents
PrefacePreliminary Remarks1. An Overview of the Demarcation of Primitve Christianity: The Task and the Method of Descriptipn2. A Survey and Critique of Recent Conventional Reconstructions of Primitve Christianity3. A Survey and Critique of Recent Studies in the Social History of Primitve Christianity4. A Survey and Critique of Recent Studies in Primitve Christianity from the Perspective of Feminist Theology5. A Survey and Critique of Recent Studies in the Environment of Primitive Christianity6. A Survey and Critique of Recent Studies in Primitive Christianity in the Different Centres of Romea) Antiochb) Romac) Macedoniad) Ephesus and Asia Minor7. A Survey and Critique of Recent Studies of Individual Problems ConclusionAppendicesI. On the Problem of Pre-Christian GnosticismII. Gerd Theissen's A Theory of Primitve Christian ReligionBibliography of Works DiscussedIndex of Authors