The Origin of Heresy: A History of Discourse in Second Temple Judaism and Early Christianity

ISBN-13: 9780415536943 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 246 str.

Robert M. Royalty

Opis

Heresy is a central concept in the formation of Orthodox Christianity. Where does this notion come from? This book traces the construction of the idea of 'heresy' in the rhetoric of ideological disagreements in Second Temple Jewish and early Christian texts.

Spis treści

Part I: Genealogy of a Discourse  1. The Origin of Heresy  2. The Rhetoric of Difference in Israel  3. Reform and Revolution in the Roman Empire: John the Baptist and the Disciples of Jesus  4. Paul and the Rhetoric of Difference  5. The Christian Gospels as Narratives of Exclusion  Part II: The Politics of Heresy  6. Policing the Boundaries: The Politics of Heresiology  7. The Politics of Orthodoxy  8. Conclusions  Notes  Bibliography  Index

O autorze

Robert Royalty is Associate Professor of Religion at Wabash College (Indiana, USA). He is the author of The Streets of Heaven: The Ideology of Wealth in the Apocalypse of John and scholarly articles on the New Testament and early Christianity.