01738nam a2200313 a 4500 20260119070816.0 2022-11-01 09:48:57 0754612384 1 0 eng 270.1 J64-B26 Barnhart, Joe E. (1931-...) Author Ashgate new critical thinking in theology & biblical studies Joe E. Barnhart In search of first-century Christianity U.S.A. Ashgate 2000 217tr. Hardcover 22cm 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. Paul, the Apostle, Saint https://data.thuviencodoc.org/books/ImageCover/2022/11/1/content.jpg Cover Image 220618 TKH 9520 9520 0 0 0 0 TVCD TVCD 2026-01-20 0.00 0 TVCD-9520 0.00 BK