Docetism in the Early Church: The Quest for an Elusive Phenomenon

ISBN-13: 9783161540844 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 289 str.

Verheyden, Joseph

Opis

This volume studies the ways modern research has tried to detect traces of Docetism in ancient sources, including the gospels and the Johannine epistles and several second-century authors. As a concept, Docetism is often used in scholarly literature for denoting loosely connected or even quite different phenomena or doctrines that all have to do with defining the nature of Christ and the reality of the incarnation and passion of Jesus. The essays gathered here address the topic from a new perspective by concentrating on the ancient documents themselves instead of staying on a purely theoretical or dogmatic level, while also critically re-examining the historical contexts in which these were produced and first circulated.Contributors:Reimund Bieringer, Allen Brent, Paul Foster, Jörg Frey, Paul Anthony Hartog, Taras Khomych, Dominika Kurek-Chomycz, Winrich Löhr, Maarten J.J. Menken, Jens Schröter, Alistair C. Stewart, Joseph Verheyden, Francis Watson

O autorze

is Professor of New Testament Studies in the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies at the KU Leuven. is Professor of New Testament Studies in the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies at KU Leuven. is Professor of Exegesis and Theology of the New Testament and the Ancient Christian Apocrypha at the Faculty of Theology of the Humboldt University of Berlin. is a PhD student at KU Leuven and HU Berlin.