The Cambridge History of Early Christian Literature. Edited by Frances Young, Lewis Ayres, and Andrew Louth
The first point to notice about this volume is the absence from the title of any mention of ‘theology’, although the omission is scarcely noted in the editorial preface—which does, however, take pains to note the deliberate avoidance of the term ‘patristics’, and not only in the interests of gender...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2009
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2009, Volume: 60, Issue: 2, Pages: 665-668 |
| Review of: | The Cambridge history of early Christian literature (Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge University Press, 2008) (Williams, Michael Stuart)
The Cambridge history of early Christian literature (Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge University Press, 2006) (Williams, Michael Stuart) The Cambridge history of early Christian literature (Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge University Press, 2006) (Williams, Michael Stuart) The Cambridge history of early Christian literature (Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge University Press, 2004) (Williams, Michael Stuart) |
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| Summary: | The first point to notice about this volume is the absence from the title of any mention of ‘theology’, although the omission is scarcely noted in the editorial preface—which does, however, take pains to note the deliberate avoidance of the term ‘patristics’, and not only in the interests of gender neutrality. The intention was to expand the remit of ‘early Christian literature’ beyond the canonical and the orthodox; and, as a project explicitly defined in terms of history and literature, this history is presented not as a study of early Christian thought but as ‘a resource for theological thinking’ (p. xiii). |
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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/flp076 |