Letters and the Topography of Early Christianity
While embedded in contemporary letter-writing conventions, early Christian letters were also instrumental in the creation of a distinctive Christian world-view. Fundamental to letters of all types, real' and fictional, is that they respond to, and hence negotiate and seek to overcome, actual a...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
[2016]
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New Testament studies
Year: 2016, Volume: 62, Issue: 2, Pages: 167-182 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
New Testament
/ Church
/ Epistolary literature
/ Space
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| IxTheo Classification: | CD Christianity and Culture HC New Testament KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity |
| Further subjects: | B
Space
B mirror of the soul B half a conversation B Christian world-view B community and individuality B absent presence B Epistolography B early Christian letters |
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| Summary: | While embedded in contemporary letter-writing conventions, early Christian letters were also instrumental in the creation of a distinctive Christian world-view. Fundamental to letters of all types, real' and fictional, is that they respond to, and hence negotiate and seek to overcome, actual and imagined spatial and temporal distance between author and recipient(s). In practice and as cultural symbols, letters, sent and transmitted in new contexts, as well as letter collections, produced in the Christian imagination new trans-locational and cross-temporal dynamics of relationality that can be mapped onto the standard epistolary topoi - absent as if present', half a conversation, a mirror of the soul. |
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| ISSN: | 1469-8145 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: New Testament studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0028688515000429 |