Aliens and sojourners
Subtitle: self as other in early Christianity
By: Benjamin H. Dunning.
Series: Divinations: rereading late ancient religion
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 186
ISBN-13: 9780812241563
Subjects: Self -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History of doctrines -- Early church, ca. 30-600; Theological anthropology -- Christianity -- History of doctrines -- Early church, ca. 30-600; Strangers -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History of doctrines -- Early church, ca. 30-600; Alienation (Theology); Identification (Religion); Other (Philosophy)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Aliens, Christians, and the rhetoric of identity; title: Citizens and aliens; title: Going to Jesus outside the camp : alien identity in Hebrews; title: Outsiders by virtue of outdoing : the Epistle to Diognetus; title: Foreign countries and alien assets in the Shepherd of Hermas; title: Strangers and soteriology in the Apocryphon of James.