Neither Jew nor Greek: a Contested Identity Christianity in the making vol.3
James D. G. Dunn
- U.S.A. William B. Eerdmans Pub. Co. 2015
- 946tr. Hardcover, illustrations 25cm
- Christianity in the making .
This book brings James Dunn's magisterial Christianity in the Making trilogy to a close. Neither Jew nor Greek covers the period following the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 C.E. and running through the second century, when the still-new Jesus movement firmed up its distinctive identity markers and the structures on which it would establish its growing appeal in the following decades and centuries. Dunn examines in depth the major factors that shaped first-generation Christianity and beyond, exploring the parting of the ways between Christianity and Judaism, the Hellenization of Christianity, and responses to Gnosticism...
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Judaism (Christian theology) Church history Primitive and early church, ca 30-600 Christianity and other religions -- Judaism