Del 61 i serien Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies

Frontiers of Faith

The Christian Encounter with Manichaeism in the Acts of Archelaus

Inbunden, Engelska, 2007

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Taking as their common subject the key early Christian anti-Manichaean work, the Acts of Archelaus (Acta Archelai), the contributors to this volume offer a systematic exploration of what the text has to tell us about inter-religious contact, conflict, and comprehension at a crucial moment in religious history: the encounter between Christianity and Manichaeism along the political and cultural frontier zone of West Asia in the early fourth century CE. The contributions examine the text's structure, apologetic and polemical strategies, and possible sources, and through these analyses challenge received notions of ‘orthodoxy’ and ‘heresy’ in the mutual construction of identity that took place between these two claimants to the Christian heritage.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2007-08-29
Mått160 x 240 x 13 mm
Vikt469 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieNag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies
Antal sidor184
FörlagBrill
ISBN9789004161801

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Jason BeDuhn, Ph.D. (Indiana University, 1995) in the Comparative Study of Religions, is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Northern Arizona University. He is the author of The Manichaean Body: In Discipline and Ritual (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000), and co-editor, with Paul Mirecki, of Emerging from Darkness: Studies on the Recovery of Manichaean Sources (Brill, 1997), and The Light and the Darkness: Studies on Manichaeism and its World (Brill, 2001).Paul Mirecki, Th.D. (Harvard, 1986) in History of Christian Origins, is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Kansas. He is the co-author, with Charles W. Hedrick, of The Gospel of the Savior: A New Ancient Gospel (Polebridge Press, 1999) and co-editor, with Marvin Meyer, of Ancient Magic and Ritual Power (Brill, 1995), and Magic and Ritual in the Ancient World (Brill, 2002).

"...a very successful achievement which, as the first book-length study of Acts of Archelaus, deserves to be used an discussed in future studies of Manischaeism." – Nils Arne Pedersen, Journal of Early Christian Studies, 2008"Frontiers of Faith has much to offer students of early Christianity and Manichaeism. [...] The contributors' honest and thoughtful engagement with intellectual and research questions ranging from source and textual criticism to the study of narrative representations and formation of cultural identities commends their collaborative work as a model for furture inquiries." – Richard LIm, Smith College, The Catholic Biblical Quarterly 73 (2011)