Why Christianity Happened: A Sociohistorical Account of Christian Origins (26–50 CE). By James G. Crossley
James Crossley offers an account of Christian origins which deliberately downplays the importance of the history of ideas, gives greater weight to socio-economic factors, and sets out to explain how it is that a Jewish, law-observant, movement in the eastern Mediterranean became a cosmopolitan relig...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2008
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| In: |
The journal of theological studies
Year: 2008, Volume: 59, Issue: 2, Pages: 765-767 |
| Review of: | Why Christianity happened (Louisville, Ky [u.a.] : Westminster John Knox Press, 2006) (Rowland, Christopher)
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| Further subjects: | B
Book review
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| Summary: | James Crossley offers an account of Christian origins which deliberately downplays the importance of the history of ideas, gives greater weight to socio-economic factors, and sets out to explain how it is that a Jewish, law-observant, movement in the eastern Mediterranean became a cosmopolitan religion. Early Christianity's particular kind of inclusiveness served a particular social need at this historical juncture and paved the way for the expansion of the movement outside the confines of Judaism, both socially and ideologically. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/fln070 |
