Phụ đề | : | Politics and the Making of the New Testament |
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Tác giả | : | Dungan, David L. |
Nơi xuất bản | : | U.S.A.: Fortress Press, 2007 |
Thông tin trách nhiệm | : | David L. Dungan |
Mô tả vật lý | : | xii, 224pgs. paperback, illustrations 21cm |
Tóm tắt/ chú giải | : | Most college and seminary courses on the New Testament include discussions of the process that gave shape to the New Testament. David Dungan re-examines the primary source for the history, the Ecclesiastical History of the fourth-century Bishop Eusebius of Caesarea, in the light of Hellenistic political thought. He reaches 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. He describes the consequences of the emperor Constantine's tremendous achievement in transforming orthodox, Catholic Christianity into imperial Christianity. |
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Ngôn ngữ | : | 1 eng |
DDC | : | 200.12 / D916-D25 |
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