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Description edit
Ancient Christians invoked sin to account for an astonishing range of things, from the death of God's son to the politics of the Roman Empire that worshipped him. In this book, award-winning historian of religion Paula Fredriksen tells the surprising story of early Christian concepts of sin,... read more
Ridiculously Simplified Synopsis edit
Characters/People edit
- Jesus: The first thinker considered.
- Paul: An early Christian who did not know Jesus, but whose writing sheds light on Jesus because he is closer to Jesus than any of the writers of the gospels. He saw the conversion of the gentiles (qua gentiles, rather than as converts to Judaism) as a sign of the imminent eschaton.
- Valentinus: Add a description of this character.
- Marcion
- Justin Martyr
- Augustine
- Origen
Quotes edit
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“Jesus of Nazareth announced the good news that God was about to redeem the world. Some 350 years later, the church taught that by far the greater part of humanity was eternally condemned. The earliest community began by preserving the memory and the message of Jesus; within decades of his death, some Christians asserted that Jesus had never had a fleshly human body at all. The church that claimed the Jewish scriptures as its own also insisted that the god who had said "Be fruitful and multiply" now actually meant "Be secually continent." Some four centuries after Paul's death, his conviction that "All Israel will be saved (Rm 11.26) served to support the Christian belief that the Jews were damned.”
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“What happened then to Paul's message, to their message, when Time failed to end on time?”
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“Valentinus and Valentinian Christianity were easier to describe when scholars knew less.”
Table of Contents edit
Prologue
Chapter 1: God, Blood, and the Temple: Jesus and Paul on Sin
Chapter 2: Flesh and the Devil: Sin in the Second Century
Chapter 3: A Rivalry of Genius: Sin and Its Consequences in Origen and Augustine
Epilogue
Timeline
Acknowledgments
Notes
Glossary
Works Cited
Index Locorum
General Index
Errata edit
Bottom of page 164: "cosmos always exit" should read "cosmos always exist".
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2012
ISBN: 9780691128900
Page Count: 209
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2012
ISBN: 9780691128900
Page Count: 209
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 200
Subjects edit
Links to Supplemental Material edit
- Paula Fredriksen page at Boston University: Faculty biography
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