Strange Religion
Brazos Press, Div of Baker Publishing Group (Verlag)
978-1-58743-517-1 (ISBN)
Outreach 2025 Recommended Resource of the Year (Culture)
The first Christians were weird.
Within Roman society, the earliest Christians stood out for the oddness of their beliefs and practices. They believed unusual things, worshiped God in strange ways, and practiced a whole new way of doing religion that would have been viewed as bizarre and dangerous compared to other religions of the ancient world.
In Strange Religion, award-winning author and New Testament teacher Nijay Gupta traces the emerging Christian faith in its Roman context, showing how the first Christians
● dared to be different and pushed the boundaries of what was acceptable
● believed, worshipped, and lived in radical ways
● transformed how others thought about religion
● started a movement that grew like wildfire
Brought to life with numerous images, this book shows how the example of the earliest Christians can offer today's believers encouragement and hope.
"A fresh and rigorously researched take on Christianity's founding."--Publishers Weekly
Nijay K. Gupta (PhD, Durham University) is professor of New Testament at Northern Seminary. He is cohost of the Slow Theology podcast, founder of the Crux Sola blog, and has written numerous books, including Tell Her Story, A Beginner's Guide to New Testament Studies, 15 New Testament Words of Life, and commentaries on Galatians, Philippians, Colossians, and 1 and 2 Thessalonians. He is also the coeditor, with Scot McKnight, of The State of New Testament Studies, and a senior translator for the New Living Translation. Gupta lives in Portland, Oregon.
Introduction
Part 1: Becoming Christian
1. Roman Religion and the Pax Deorum: Keeping Peace with the Gods
2. "Believers": The First Christians and the Transformation of Religion
3. A Dangerous and Strange Religion: Christianity as a Superstition
Part 2: What the First Christians Believed
4. Believing the Unbelievable
5. Cult without Smoke and Blood: Strange Worship
6. Possessed by the Spirit of God
7. Beginning at the End of All Things: A Strange Reckoning of Time
Part 3: How the First Christians Worshiped
8. A Household of Faith: The Family Practices of the Early Christians
9. A Priest-God and a Priestly People: Church as a Liturgical Community
Part 4: How the First Christians Lived
10. Dangerous Contact: Becoming Godlike
11. To Treat All as Equal
12. The Christians Were Not Perfect
Strange Religion: Putting It All Together
| Erscheinungsdatum | 28.07.2023 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Ada, MI |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 140 x 216 mm |
| Gewicht | 255 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte | |
| Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-58743-517-9 / 1587435179 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-58743-517-1 / 9781587435171 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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