Purity, community, and ritual in early christian literature

Part I. Purity in its contexts. Introducing purity discourses -- Purity and defilement in the Greco-Roman East and in Judaism -- Part II. Breaking with the past. Early Christian attitudes towards dietary impurity -- Early Christian attitudes towards death defilement -- Part III. Roots of a new parad...

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Autor principal: Blidstein, Moshe 1982- (Autor)
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Lenguaje:Inglés
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Publicado: Oxford Oxford University Press 2017
En:Año: 2017
Colección / Revista:Oxford studies in the Abrahamic religions
(Cadenas de) Palabra clave estándar:B Cristianismo primitivo / Pureza / Ritual
Clasificaciones IxTheo:KAA Iglesia ; Historia
Otras palabras clave:B Purity, Ritual (Rome)
B Purity, Ritual Christianity History of doctrines
B Purity, Ritual Judaism History of doctrines
B Purity, Ritual (Greece)
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Sumario:Part I. Purity in its contexts. Introducing purity discourses -- Purity and defilement in the Greco-Roman East and in Judaism -- Part II. Breaking with the past. Early Christian attitudes towards dietary impurity -- Early Christian attitudes towards death defilement -- Part III. Roots of a new paradigm: the first two centuries. Baptism as purification in early Christian texts -- The pure community, the holy sacrifice, and the defilement of sin -- Sexual defilement in early Christian texts -- Part IV. New configurations: purity, body, and community in the third century. Dietary and sexual purity in Jewish-Christian communities -- The Origenist synthesis -- General conclusions
Notas:Bibliography p. 237 - 274
ISBN:019879195X