Sinners: Jesus and His Earliest Followers

Jesus and his earliest followers

Baylor University Press (Apr 01, 2009)

9781602581463

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200 pages | 152 x 230 mm | English

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Dewey 232.904

LC Classification BT304 .C345 2009

LC Control No. 2008029720

Genre

Biblical Resources Jesus-BR/JES

Subject

Bible
Jesus Christ - Character
Jesus Christ - Example
Jesus Christ - Friends And Associates
Sin - Christianity - History Of Doctrines - Early Church, Ca. 30-600

Plot

How did early Christians remember Jesus--and how did they develop their own "Christian" identities and communities? In this accessible and revelatory book, Greg Carey explores how transgression contributed to early Christian identity in the Gospels, Acts, Letters of Paul, and Revelation. Carey examines Jesus as a friend of sinners, challenger of purity laws, transgressor of conventional masculine values of his time, and convicted seditionist. He looks at early Christian communities as out of step with "respectable" practices of their time. Finally, he provides examples of contemporary Christians whose faith requires them to "do the right thing," even when it means violating current definitions of "respectability."

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