Sin: The Early History of an Idea. By Paula Fredriksen
With this book Paula Fredriksen presents a brief but powerful account of the early history of sin in Christianity. Her study is divided in three chapters: 1. Jesus and Paul, 2. Valentinus, Marcion, and Justin, 3. Origen and Augustine. This approach is selective, but ‘targeted’. Fredriksen is interes...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2013
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2013, Volume: 64, Issue: 1, Pages: 257-260 |
| Review of: | Sin (Princeton [u.a.] : Princeton Univ. Press, 2012) (Lössl, Josef)
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| Summary: | With this book Paula Fredriksen presents a brief but powerful account of the early history of sin in Christianity. Her study is divided in three chapters: 1. Jesus and Paul, 2. Valentinus, Marcion, and Justin, 3. Origen and Augustine. This approach is selective, but ‘targeted’. Fredriksen is interested in the ‘dramatic mutations’ in the early Christian ideas about sin (p. 1), not in continuities. She has written, in her own words, ‘a staccato history’ of sin in early Christianity. ‘Disjunctures are what I want to lift up here’, she writes (p. 4). The result is impressive and offers many new perspectives and insights., Chapter 1 contrasts Jesus with Paul. It presents Jesus as steeped in the Judaism of first-century Galilee and Judaea. |
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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/fls151 |