Constantine's Bible: Politics And the Making of the New Testament - Brossura

Dungan, David L.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0800637909 ISBN 13: 9780800637903

Casa editrice: Fortress Pr, 2006

Riassunto

Most college and seminary courses on the New Testament include discussions of the process that gave shape to the New Testament. Now David Dungan re-examines the primary source for this history, the Ecclesiastical History of the fourth-century Bishop Eusebius of Caesarea, in the light of Hellenistic political thought. He reaches startling new conclusions: that we usually use the term "canon" incorrectly; that the legal imposition of a "canon" or "rule" upon scripture was a fourth- and fifth-century phenomenon enforced with the power of the Roman imperial government; that the forces shaping the New Testament canon are much earlier than the second-century crisis occasioned by Marcion, and that they are political forces.Dungan discusses how the scripture selection process worked, book-by-book, as he examines the criteria used-and not used-to make these decisions. Finally he describes the consequences of the emperor Constantine's tremendous achievement in transforming orthodox, Catholic Christianity into imperial Christianity.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Fortress Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0800637909
• ISBN 13: 9780800637903
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 224
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• Persona responsabile: non disponibile