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Goodrich [Ancient 9781107165229] Christian Writers, Paulist Press, 9780809106202] "This volume is the result of a conference, entitled The Christian Second Century, which was held 1 | page spotlight|©authors|or|wordtrade.com between March 14th and 16th, 2013, at the PART III INTERPRETING TEXTS AND Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and ENGAGING IN PRACTICE Humanities (CRASSH), University of Cambridge. 10 Galen and the Christians: Texts and and includes bibliographical references and index. Authority in the Second Century AD by Rebecca Flemming Christianity in the Second Century shows how 11 `Authoritative Texts' and How to academic study on this critical period of Christian Handle Them: Some Reflections on an development has undergone substantial change Ambiguous Concept and Its Use in Second- over the last thirty years. The second century is Century Christian Literature by Joseph often considered to be a time during which the Verheyden Christian church moved relentlessly towards forms 12 Belief and Practice in Graeco-Roman Religiosity: Plutarch, De Iside and Osiride of institutionalisation and consolidated itself against 379 c by Teresa Morgan so-called heretics. However, new perspectives have 13 Lot Oracles and Fate: On Early been brought within recent scholarship as the Christianity among Others in the Second period has attracted interest from a variety of Century by Laura Salah Nasrallah disciplines, including not only early Christian studies, PART IV MODELLING IDENTITIES but also ancient Judaism and the wider world of 14 Christians as a `Third Race': Is Ethnicity the early imperial scholarship. Christianity in the at Issue? by Erich S. Gruen Second Century seeks to reflect this changed 15 Ethnic Discourse in Early Christianity by scholarly landscape, and with contributions from Oskar Skarsaune key figures in these recent re-evaluations, it aims to 16 Pagan Attitudes by John A. North 17 'Away with the Atheists!' Christianity enrich and stimulate further discussion. and Militant Atheism in the Early Empire by Contents Tim Whitmarsh List of Contributors 18 Modelling the Second Century as the Acknowledgements Age of the Laboratory by Judith Lieu List of Abbreviations Bibliography Introduction by James Carleton Paget and General Index Judith Lieu PART I CONTEXTS Excerpt: What is the second century? Should we, as I Empires, Diasporas and the Emergence of Religions by Greg Woolf with other `centuries', talk about it in terms of a 2 The Mediterranean Jewish Diaspora in long second century,' ascribing to it a period of the Second Century by Tessa Rajak time which goes beyond its strict mathematical 3 The Rabbis and Their Rivals in the limits. And how will any particular perspective on Second Century CE by Philip Alexander the century affect the way its length is calculated? 4 Church and Synagogue vis-à-vis Roman A `Christian' second century, for instance, may be Rule in the Second temporally different from a `Jewish' or `pagan' Century by William Horbury second century.' Whatever we think of this matter, PART II DISCERNING CONTINUITY AND a Christian second century has been a perennial DISCONTINUITY IN EARLY CHRISTIANITY subject of interest among scholars, in particular 5 The Second Century from the Perspective of the New Testament by James Carleton because of its perceived transitional character Paget which, for many, renders it a Schlüsselepoche. 6 Continuity and Change in Second- Conventionally, it has been presented as a time of Century Christianity: A Narrative against consolidation, seen in increased institutionalization, the Trend by Lewis Ayres often in the face of crises, during which the ideas of 7 The Gnostic Myth': How Does Its Demise orthodoxy and heresy were honed and the Impact Twenty-first Century Historiography inchoate authority structures of Christianity of Christianity's Second Century? By Karen established; hence the transition is from the rather L. King looser conception of the Christian faith witnessed in 8 The Gnostic Myth by Mark Edwards the New Testament to the more systematic 9 Modelling Second-Century Christian Theology: Christian Theology as articulations of belief and practice, as well as of philosophia by Winrich Löhr networked structures of authority, that emerged 2 | Page spotlight|©authors|or|wordtrade.com from the third century. Yet even this looks different comprehensive, nuanced, inclusive account, where if the emphasis is looking forward from the first the old certitudes of a once apparently familiar (New Testament) century to the second, or if it is map, delineating a story of continuities, disappear looking back from the more obviously ecclesial and new accounts become necessary. Such accounts third century to the inchoate second. need not reject narrative — indeed many continue to want to tell a story of sorts — but insofar as But over the past thirty or so years, while the belief they embrace that idea, it will be in a more that the century is an important one has not complex form. diminished, there has been a growing awareness that this older characterization should be revised Complementary to this shift in emphasis has been a and a more complex account of this period be growing sense that Christian developments in the undertaken. This is partly due to an emerging second century should not be seen primarily in consensus that Christianity in this period was isolation from the wider cultural and religious world stubbornly diverse, a view with its roots in Walter out of which they emerged. Rather, reflecting a Bauer's Orthodoxy and Heresy of 1934, whose trend in the study of late antique Christianity real effect only came to be seen in the early 1970s pioneered by Peter Brown, such developments and beyond.' Accompanying this conviction, but should be viewed within the framework of wider also emerging from textual discoveries and the changes in the ancient world. Such a shift is application of new theoretical insights, is the view precisely that — Christianity has always been that many of the old categories, which had become viewed by those who have specialized in its study central in descriptions of the Christian second as a movement emerging from a particular context century, categories adopted from some of the and explicable in relation to that context. However, second century's principal Christian writers, such as whereas the tendency has been to describe it as Justin and