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Category Archives: Early Church
Nanos-broken off or damaged olive branches?
I have read the next two essays in Reading Romans Within Judaism by Mark Nanos. The first essay was written for non-scholarly audience and is valuable for the way it more plainly states the way Nanos reads Romans 9-11. The … Continue reading
Posted in Early Church, Paul
Tagged Mark Nanos, Replacement theology, the book of Romans
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Had Paul’s Roman readers already broken with Judaism?
My new book project is a Mark Nanos book of essays called Reading Romans within Judaism. I am reading the essays in his second volume. I have read quite a bit of the work of Nanos. I heard him lecture … Continue reading
Fredriksen-the apocalyptic Paul and his non-apocalyptic afterlifes
According to Paula Fredriksen, the Apostle Paul had taught that the current age was about to end and the God of Israel was about to inaugurate a new age with the risen Jesus as the royal messiah. His coming from … Continue reading
Terrien-the suppression of Prisca
During this new phase of the history of the church (A.D. 65-96), the position of womanhood was theologically and ethically altered. The ambiguities entertained be the second generation of Christian leaders hardened into a male one-sidedness, which excluded women from … Continue reading
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Tagged Gnosticism, Prisca, Samuel Terrien, the Book of Hebrews
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Carr-final observations
I am finishing up David M. Carr’s Holy Resilience today. My first observation is that there are reasons to think his understanding of trauma in early Christian experience is too one-dimensional. He emphasizes what he sees as the trauma of … Continue reading
Carr-survival after the Jewish War
We have been reading through David M. Carr’s Holy Resilience, where he highlights the role trauma has played in Jewish and Christian history. Two more traumas mark the start of a new era for Judaism and Christianity. The main one … Continue reading
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Tagged David M. Carr, persecution of the church, poll tax, Rabbinic Judaism, the Jewish War
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Carr-Paul, trauma, and zeal
David M. Carr in Holy Resilience treats Paul as the traumatized apostle. Some of his points do not convince me. He tries to suggest that Paul’s christiopanies (appearances of Christ and visions)were trauma-related. He points especially to the vision recounted … Continue reading
Posted in Bible, Early Church, Paul
Tagged David M. Carr, Replacement theology, Trauma Theory
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Carr-trauma, atonement, and the Jesus Jews
David M. Carr, who wrote Holy Resilience, is a Christian. More specifically he is a Quaker. You might like to know that as we turn to the part of his book that looks at how early Christianity dealt with trauma. … Continue reading
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Anderson-3 periods
In The Riddles of the Fourth Gospel, Paul N. Anderson says there were three periods during which the Gospel of John developed within a specific community: The Palestinian Period-30 to 70 CE The First Asia Minor Period–The Johannine Community-70-85 CE … Continue reading