[PDF.32ot] Empire Baptized: How the Church Embraced What Jesus Rejected (Second-Fifth Centuries)

Empire Baptized: How the Church Embraced What Jesus Rejected (Second-Fifth Centuries)

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 | #699495 in Books |  2016-08-25 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.20 x.90 x6.00l,.0 | File type: PDF | 320 pages

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||3 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| Jesus did not attempt to bring a "scheme for salvation" but to show how the love of God is lived out in relationships with other|By Customer|The author uses a wide range of scholarly works in constructing this very readable work. He catalogs the remarkable "remaking" of the message and life of Jesus into a religion which during the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd centuries CE was readied to| |Wes Howard-Brook has performed a great service with Empire Baptized. He explains how the transition in Christianity from Jesus's way of peace to the coercive ways of Christendom happened. An enormously enlightening account that helps us better understand our p

Through a study of the writers of the post-New Testament period, this book shows how "Christianity" was forged as "the religion of empire," undermining the New Testament's proclamation of Jesus as upholder of the "religion of creation," two categories laid out in Howard-Brook's earlier volume, "Come Out, My People": God's Call Out of Empire in the Bible and Beyond (Orbis 2010). Using writers from Alexandria (Clement, Origen, and Athanasius) and North Africa (Tertu...

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