The African Memory of Mark – Reassessing Early Church Tradition

Thomas C. Oden (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

279 Seiten

2011
Inter-Varsity Press,US (Verlag)
978-0-8308-3933-9 (ISBN)

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Thomas Oden calls for a radical reassessment of early church tradition by directing our attention to Africa, where a memory of St. Mark survives as the North African founder of the church in Alexandria. The result is an illuminating portrait that challenges long-standing assumptions in the West.

We often regard the author of the Gospel of Mark as an obscure figure about whom we know little. Many would be surprised to learn how much fuller a picture of Mark exists within widespread African tradition, tradition that holds that Mark himself was from North Africa, that he founded the church in Alexandria, that he was an eyewitness to the Last Supper and Pentecost, that he was related not only to Barnabas but to Peter as well and accompanied him on many of his travels.
In this provocative reassessment of early church tradition, Thomas C. Oden begins with the palette of New Testament evidence and adds to it the range of colors from traditional African sources, including synaxaries (compilations of short biographies of saints to be read on feast days), archaeological sites, non-Western historical documents and ancient churches.
The result is a fresh and illuminating portrait of Mark, one that is deeply rooted in African memory and seldom viewed appreciatively in the West.

Thomas C. Oden (Ph.D., Yale University), formerly Henry Anson Buttz Professor of Theology at The Theological School of Drew University in Madison, New Jersey, is now director of the Center for Early African Christianity at Eastern University, St. Davids, Pennsylvania. He is the general editor of the Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture, Ancient Christian Texts and the Ancient Christian Doctrine series as well as the author of Classic Christianity, a revision of his three-volume systematic theology.

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Preface Not For Africans Alone

1 A Boy Named John Mark

Part One: The African Memory Of St. Mark

2 Defining African Memory

3 The African Roots

4 The Literary Sources of the African Memory of Mark

Part Two: The Identity of the Biblical Mark Viewed from African Tradition

5 A Portrait of Mark

6 The African Mosaic of the Lord?s Supper and Pentecost According to Mark

7 Mark with Peter and Paul

Part Three: Mark in Africa

8 The Call of Mark to Carry the Good News to Africa

9 Mark?s Martyrdom Sites in Alexandria

Part Four: Mark in the Historical Record

10 Mark?s African Identity Viewed Historically

Part Five: The Ubiquity of Mark

11The Puzzle of Mark

12 When the John Mark of History Meets the St. Mark of Memory

13 The Markan Nucleus of African Liturgy and Catechesis

Conclusion

Select Bibliography

Author Index

Subject Index

Scripture Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.8.2011
Verlagsort	Illinois
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 227 mm
Gewicht	446 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Bibelausgaben / Bibelkommentare
ISBN-10	0-8308-3933-X / 083083933X
ISBN-13	978-0-8308-3933-9 / 9780830839339
Zustand	Neuware