Why this new race : ethnic reasoning in early Christianity / Denise Kimber Buell.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Buell, Denise Kimber, 1965-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Columbia University Press, c2005.
Subjects:	Race > Religious aspects > Christianity > History of doctrines > Early church, ca. 30-600. Ethnicity > Religious aspects > Christianity > History of doctrines > Early church, ca. 30-600. Identification (Religion) > History of doctrines > Early church, ca. 30-600.

Table of 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
Epilogue.

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