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Author Dunning, Benjamin H

Title Aliens and sojourners : self as other in early Christianity / Benjamin H. Dunning
Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (186 pages)
Series Divinations.
Contents Introduction: Aliens, Christians, and the rhetoric of identity -- Citizens and aliens -- Going to Jesus "outside the camp" : alien identity in Hebrews -- Outsiders by virtue of outdoing : the Epistle to Diognetus -- Foreign countries and alien assets in the Shepherd of Hermas -- Strangers and soteriology in the Apocryphon of James
Summary Why did early Christians claim their "otherness" as resident aliens, strangers, and sojourners so vocally? Aliens and Sojourners explores the markedly different ways that Christians used the rhetoric of their own marginality in order to variously situate Christian identity in relation to the ancient Roman world
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
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Subject Other (Philosophy)
Identification (Religion)
Alienation (Theology)
Strangers -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History of doctrines -- Early church, ca. 30-600
Theological anthropology -- Christianity -- History of doctrines -- Early church, ca. 30-600
Self -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History of doctrines -- Early church, ca. 30-600
RELIGION -- Christianity -- History.
Alienation (Theology)
Identification (Religion)
Other (Philosophy)
Theological anthropology -- Christianity -- History of doctrines -- Early church
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780812201819
0812201817