Gentile Christian Identity from Cornelius to Constantine: The Nations, the Parting of the Ways, and Roman...

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Terence L Donaldson

Gentile Christian Identity from Cornelius to Constantine

The Nations, the Parting of the Ways, and Roman Imperial Ideology

Terence L Donaldson

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William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
01 October 2024

History of religion; Christianity; Christian Churches & denominations; New Testaments

Originally an ascribed identity that cast non-Jewish Christ-believers as an ethnic other, ""gentile"" soon evolved into a much more complex aspect of early Christian identity. Gentile Christian Identity from Cornelius to Constantine is a full historical account of this trajectory, showing how, in the context of ""the parting of the ways,"" the early church increasingly identified itself as a distinctly gentile and anti-Judaic entity, even as it also crafted itself as an alternative to the cosmopolitan project of the Roman Empire. This process of identity construction shaped Christianity's legacy, paradoxically establishing it as both a counter-empire and a mimicker of Rome's imperial ideology.

Drawing on social identity theory and ethnography, Terence Donaldson offers an analysis of gentile Christianity that is thorough and highly relevant to today's discourses surrounding identity, ethnicity, and Christian-Jewish relations. As Donaldson shows, a full understanding of the term ""gentile"" is key to understanding the modern Western world and the church as we know it.

By: Terence L Donaldson
Imprint: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 33mm
Weight: 875g
ISBN: 9780802885326
ISBN 10: 0802885322
Pages: 576
Publication Date: 01 October 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Terence L. Donaldson is Lord and Lady Coggan Professor Emeritus of New Testament Studies at Wycliffe College in Toronto. He is also the author of Jews and Anti-Judaism in the New Testament and Paul and the Gentiles.