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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| Type de support: | Imprimé Livre |
| Langue: | Anglais |
| Service de livraison Subito: | Commander maintenant. |
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Oxford
Oxford University Press
2017
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| Dans: | Année: 2017 |
| Collection/Revue: | Oxford studies in the Abrahamic religions
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| Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés: | B
Christianisme primitif
/ Pureté
/ Rituel
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| Classifications IxTheo: | KAA Histoire de l'Église |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Purity, Ritual (Rome)
B Purity, Ritual Christianity History of doctrines B Purity, Ritual Judaism History of doctrines B Purity, Ritual (Greece) |
| Résumé: | 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 |
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| Description: | Bibliography p. 237 - 274 |
| ISBN: | 019879195X |