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The early Christian: their world mission and self-discovery

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In "The Early Christians" Meyer sets out to investigate "the native character of earliest Christianity" (p 11). This work was needed because after 150 years of hunting for the historical Jesus from "Baur's conflict of Petrine and Pauline currents, Harnack's hellenization of the gospel, the history-of-religions school and its view of early Christianity as an evolving syncretism, Walter Bauer's positing of heresy before orthodoxy...all...have either been discarded or remain under debate" (p 14).
The Easter experience was the root of the kerygma for early Christians. The earliest community "conceived of itself as the Zion of eschatological prophecy is securely confirmed by the motif of the gathering of the dispersed of Israel in Acts" (p 55). Throughout the Old Testament God had promised his people that the lost tribes would be brought back. But since these people had been forced to marry non-Jews, there seemed no way to bring them back. Unless everyone, including all the pagans, were brought under the new covenant.

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Z. HANDIMAN

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270.1 MEY e

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Eugene : Wipf & Stock Publ.., 2008

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245p.; 21 cm.

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English

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978-1-60608-370-3

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270.1

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EARLY CHRISTIANITY

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