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Rediscovering the Identities of the Christians of the Mediterranean in the 1st and 2nd c. |
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Other Titles: |
An “alternative” New Testament era history from the point of view of “Turning to Space” |
Authors: |
Despotis, Sotirios |
Reviewer: |
Vantsos, Miltiadis |
Subject: | HUMANITIES AND ARTS > RELIGION AND THEOLOGY > THEOLOGY > REVELATION HUMANITIES AND ARTS > RELIGION AND THEOLOGY > THEOLOGY > TRADITION (THEOLOGY) HUMANITIES AND ARTS > RELIGION AND THEOLOGY > THEOLOGY > ECOTHEOLOGY HUMANITIES AND ARTS > RELIGION AND THEOLOGY > THEOLOGY > NEGATIVE THEOLOGY HUMANITIES AND ARTS > RELIGION AND THEOLOGY > THEOLOGY > BIBLICAL THEOLOGY HUMANITIES AND ARTS > RELIGION AND THEOLOGY > RELIGION > RELIGIOUS SEGREGATION HUMANITIES AND ARTS > RELIGION AND THEOLOGY > RELIGION > RELIGIOUS TOLERATION HUMANITIES AND ARTS > RELIGION AND THEOLOGY > THEOLOGY > MISSIOLOGY |
Keywords: |
Multiple identities
New Perspective on Paul New Spatial Turn Emmotional Community Messianisms - Millennialism Judaisms Historiography Rhetoric Epistolography Judeo-Christians and ethnic Christians Apocalypticism |
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Abstract: |
In the post-modern era there has been a shift from the emphasis on Time (History) to that on Space - the “Territory” (Spatial Turn). At the same time, today we are talking about multiple identities, which are shaped according to the context, while now emphasis is given to the function of the body, the senses and the emotions, which shape the Physiognomy of both the Person and his Community. New data, which come not only from literary sources, but also from excavations and inscriptions (and coins), come to overturn the traditional view of the formation of a unified Christianity in the Mediterranean par excellence by Paul. It is now found that this charismatic figure, like Judaism, was also for centuries examined through the “glass brillen” of Augustine and Luther (cf. the “New Paul Perspective”). Therefore, in this Handbook I will focus on the diverse Christian Communities, which were founded not only around the Aegean but in the Mediterranean as a whole (Asia Minor, Rome, Alexandria, Cartagena, Spain) to examine their “dialogue” and coinherence with the surrounding World. The sensitization of the Space in the 1st c. is also derived from the meaning given to genius loci. Essentially, following the “Way” (as Christianity was originally called) – the "steps" of Jesus Christ, Paul, John and the other “workers” of the Gospel, I will offer the general public a Panorama of the diversity of their Christian Communities during the first two centuries and a “spiritual wandering” to rediscover their ethos and morals, taking into account the latest data regarding the Mediterranean world during the imperial era. History and Geography are intertwined, so that especially after a Crisis, something new emerges.
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Linguistic Editors: |
Bismpa, Anna |
Graphic Editors: |
Tsakmaki, Eleni |
Type: |
Undergraduate textbook |
Creation Date: | 22-09-2022 |
Item Details: | |
ISBN |
978-618-5667-23-8 |
License: |
Attribution - NonCommercial - ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) |
DOI | http://dx.doi.org/10.57713/kallipos-94 |
Handle | http://hdl.handle.net/11419/8582 |
Bibliographic Reference: | Despotis, S. (2022). Rediscovering the Identities of the Christians of the Mediterranean in the 1st and 2nd c. [Undergraduate textbook]. Kallipos, Open Academic Editions. https://dx.doi.org/10.57713/kallipos-94 |
Language: |
Greek |
Consists of: |
1. The epic of the eastern Mediterranean 2. From Nazareth to Jerusalem – Jesus Christ’s field and framework of action 3. From Jerusalem to Rome – The Evangelist Luke and the Apostle Paul 4. Paul’s presence in the “miniature of Rome” (Philippi) – Christianity and female 5. Paul's Presence in Thessaloniki and Veroia – Christianity, Colleges and Afterdeath Expectations – “Anti-Semitism” (Anti-Judaism) 6. Paul’s dialogue on the Agora of Athens (christianity and greek philosophical schools) 7. The Areopagus sermon (christianity and rhetoric) 8. Corinth in the 1st c. AD – Dinners, Prostitution and Isthmia – The attitude of Christianity (reception – adaptation – “identity”) 9. Paul’s Odyssey in the Eternal City via Crete and the Shipwreck in Meliti (Kefalonia?) 10. The Apocalypse of John on Patmos – The Christian Churches of Asia Minor I (Ephesus – Izmir – Pergamon) 11. The Apocalypse of John on Patmos – The Christian Churches of Asia Minor II (Sardis – Philadelphia – Laodicea) 12. Alexandria – Cultural Capital of the Mediterranean: Clement and Origen Carthage: “African Christianity” – Tertullian and Perpetua |
Number of pages |
292 |
Publication Origin: |
Kallipos, Open Academic Editions |
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