TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sanders,E.P.,ed
TI  - Jewish and Christian self-definition, volume 1: the shaping of Christianity in the second and third centuries 
SN  - 0800605780
AV  - 1 BR 165 J54 1980
PY  - 1980///
CY  - Philadelphia, PA
PB  - Fortress Press
KW  - CHURCH HISTORY
KW  - PRIMITIVE AND EARLY CHURCH, CA. 30-600
KW  - JUDAISM
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - TALMUDIC PERIOD, 10-425
KW  - ADDRESSES, ESSAYS, LECTURES
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and indexes; The problem of self-definition: from sect to church -- The social setting of second-century Christianity -- Theological norms and social perspectives in Gnatius of Antioch -- The two sees of Peter -- The self-definition of Christianity in relation to later Platonism -- The Christians as the Romans (and Greeks) saw them -- Why the church rejected Gnosticism -- Normative self-definition in Gnosticism -- Jewish elements in Gnosticism and the development of Gnostic self-definition -- 10. The successors of pre-70 Jerusalem Christianity: A critical evaluation of the Pella-Tradition -- 11. Theological and non-theological motives in Irenaeu's refutation of the Gnostics -- 12. The past in Clement of Alexandria -- 13. The meaning of Dogma in Origen
ER  -