Title: Making Christians
First published: 1999
Description: How did second-century Christians vie with each other in seeking to produce an authoritative discourse of Christian identity? In this book, Denise Buell argues that many early Christians deployed the metaphors of procreation and kinship in the struggle over claims to represent the truth of Christian interpretation, practice, and doctrine.

In particular, she examines the intriguing works of the influential theologian Clement of Alexandria (ca. 150-210 C.E.), for whom cultural assumptions about procreation and kinship played an important role in defining which Christians have the proper authority to teach, and which kinds of knowledge are authentic.
Subjects: Apologetics, Christianity, History, History of doctrines, Human reproduction, Kinship, Religious aspects, Religious aspects of Human reproduction, Religious aspects of Kinship, Apologetics, history, early church, ca. 30-600, Clement, of alexandria, saint, approximately 150-approximately 215, Early works to 1800
People: Clement of Alexandria, Saint (ca. 150-ca. 215)
Time periods: Early church, ca. 30-600
LC classification: BR65.C66 B84 1999