Early Christians spoke about themselves as resident aliens, strangers, and sojourners, asserting that otherness is a fundamental part of being Christian. But why did they do so and to what ends? How did Christians' claims to foreign status situate them with respect to each other and to the larger Roman world as the new movement grew and struggled to make sense of its own boundaries?
"Aliens and Sojourners" argues that the claim to alien status is not a transparent one. Instead, Benjamin Dunning contends, it shaped a rich, pervasive, variegated discourse of identity in early Christianity....
Early Christians spoke about themselves as resident aliens, strangers, and sojourners, asserting that otherness is a fundamental part of being Chri...
Augustine of Hippo is history's best-known Christian convert. The very concept of "conversio" owes its dissemination to Augustine's "Confessions," and yet, as Jason BeDuhn notes, conversion in Augustine is not the sudden, dramatic, and complete transformation of self we likely remember it to be. Rather, in the "Confessions" Augustine depicts conversion as a lifelong process, a series of self-discoveries and self-departures. The tale of Augustine is one of conversion, apostasy, and conversion again.
In this first volume of "Augustine's Manichaean Dilemma," BeDuhn reconstructs Augustine's...
Augustine of Hippo is history's best-known Christian convert. The very concept of "conversio" owes its dissemination to Augustine's "Confessions," ...