«Entre deux mondes»: enjeu d'une terminologie identitaire dans le discours apologétique des chrétiens au IIe siècle (Aristide d'Athènes)
In his Apology, Aristide of Athens presents Christians like a third γένος, like a third category within a traditional binary typology. However, in the literature of Greek language, the γένος term recovers a plurality of meaning and realities making complex its interpretation. According to the three...
| Published in: | Judaïsme ancien |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | French |
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Brepols
[2014]
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Judaïsme ancien
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| Summary: | In his Apology, Aristide of Athens presents Christians like a third γένος, like a third category within a traditional binary typology. However, in the literature of Greek language, the γένος term recovers a plurality of meaning and realities making complex its interpretation. According to the three principal current historiographical tendencies, must one consider that the term is used by the Christian authors of the second century to designate Christians as a particular ethnic group, as a descent or as a type of particular worship? It does not matter the meaning that which we give to him, it obvious appear that the γένος term is employed by the Christian authors in purpose of group's classification and that it have a powerful locating and identity function by setting up a border between the categories distinguished and by contributing to a double complementary process: the process of construction of a speech of a conscience in an identity of membership and the process of distinction between Judeans and Christians. |
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| ISSN: | 2507-0339 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Judaïsme ancien
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1484/J.JAAJ.1.103854 |