Exploring early Christian identity
By: edited by Bengt Holmberg.
Contributors: Holmberg, Bengt, 1942-
Series: Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament -- 226; Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament -- 226.
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Tübingen
Language: eng
Number of pages: 205
ISBN-13: 9783161496745
Subjects: Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.; Identity (Psychology) -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-191) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Understanding the first hundred years of Christian identity / Bengt Holmberg; title: Memory and identity in the gospels : a new perspective / Samuel Byrskog; title: Inventing Christian identity : Paul, Ignatius, and Theodosius I / Anders Runesson; title: Behaving like a Christ-believer : a cognitive perspective on identity and behavior norms in the early Christ-movement / Rikard Roitto; title: The prototypical Christ-believer : early Christian identity formation in Ephesus / Mikael Tellbe; title: The role of morality in the rise of Roman Christianity / Runar Thorsteinsson; title: Christian identity as true masculinity / Fredrik Ivarsson; title: Early Christian identity : some conclusions / Bengt Holmberg.