Browsing the archives for the christian origins category

13 Mar 10

Christians, Associations, and the State

I’m working on a paper on voluntary associations in the Roman world. The paper itself is not about Christ-confessing communities as associations, but is looking at the other evidence for collegia/thiasoi. Nevertheless, I was reading Stephen Wilson’s chapter to Voluntary Associations in the Graeco-Roman World and he had an interesting comment regarding Christian communities and [...]

0 Comments Posted in anabaptism, associations, books, christian origins, papers, politics, quotes, ucla by Patrick George McCullough
16 Sep 09

Now, There's a Book I Have to Read . . .

Dramatic movie preview voice: “Just when you thought all the dust had been settled, one man has come to shake it off. The writing was on the wall, and he decided to reread it. He enters the arena where two groups battle over the true meaning of identity. He searches through every city in the [...]

0 Comments Posted in Uncategorized, books, christian origins, social identity by Patrick George McCullough
2 Dec 08

Film: "Birth of a New Religion"

Bartchy had his survey course, “History of Early Christians,” watch a section of a documentary film on Christianity to review. I thought I would share my own thoughts here. Part One of the film “Two Thousand Years: The History of Christianity” (1999), a section entitled “The Birth of a New Religion: 1st and 2nd Centuries,” [...]

0 Comments Posted in Christian history, Jesus, NT Wright, Paul, charlesworth, christian origins, christianity, documentaries, film reviews, new testament, social history by Patrick George McCullough
10 Oct 08

Book Review: Christian Origins by Jonathan Knight

I would like to extend my gratitude to Abby at T&T Clark (see their blog) for sending along a fabulous (brand) new survey on the origins of Christianity. Jonathan Knight’s Christian Origins [publisher link - find the table of contents there] is a comprehensive introduction to the Jewish origins of Christianity, with an emphasis on [...]

1 Comment Posted in T&T Clark, apocalypticism, book reviews, books, christian origins, christianity, eschatology, gender roles, jewish-christian relations, jonathan knight, judaism, new testament by Patrick George McCullough
22 Aug 08

In the Mail: Peter Brown's The Body and Society

Another thank you is due. I extend my enormous gratitude to Columbia University Press for sending to me the twentieth anniversary edition of Peter Brown’s work on marriage and sexual practices in early Christianity, The Body and Society: Men, Women, and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity (or see the book at CUP’s website). Here is [...]

2 Comments Posted in body, book reviews, books, christian origins, early christianity, gender, peter brown, sexuality by Patrick George McCullough
31 Jan 07

Secular Approaches to Christian Origins

April DeConick, Isla Carroll and Percy E. Turner Professor of Biblical Studies at Rice University, has joined the blogging world this past week with her Forbidden Gospels Blog. I’ve noticed because she’s been welcomed by bloggers at PaleoJudaica, The Busybody, Earliest Christian History, Hypotyposeis, Deinde (with a brief welcome and a longer critique of her [...]

0 Comments Posted in April DeConick, blogging, canon, christian origins, early church, secular perspectives by Patrick George McCullough