TY - BOOK AU - Buell,Denise Kimber ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - Why this new race: ethnic reasoning in early Christianity T2 - Gender, theory, and religion AV - BR195.R37 B84 2005eb U1 - 270.1/089 22 PY - 2005/// CY - New York PB - Columbia University Press KW - Race KW - Religious aspects KW - Christianity KW - History of doctrines KW - Early church, ca. 30-600 KW - Ethnicity KW - Identification (Religion) KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-250) and indexes; "Worshippers of so-called Gods, Jews, and Christians" : religion in ethnoracial discourses -- "We were before the foundation of the world" : appeals to the past in early Christian self-definition -- "We, quarried from the bowels of Christ, are the true Genos of Israel" : Christian claims to peoplehood -- "A Genos saved by nature" : ethnic reasoning as intra-Christian polemic -- "From every race of humans" : ethnic reasoning, conversion, and Christian universalism; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2009; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries UR - https://ezproxy.taylors.edu.my/login?url=http://site.ebrary.com/lib/taylorscollege/Doc?id=10183426 ER -