The Early Christians: Their World Mission and Self-Discovery

by Ben F. Meyer

Publisher:

Wipf and Stock

, 2008

Overview

The purpose of this volume is to take the central event in the life of primitive Christianity—the launching of the mission to the Gentiles—as a paradigm of changing Christian self-definition and as the force that brought Christian identity into the light of thematic consciousness. This has entailed reconstructing the history of the launching of the mission. The Early Christians explores questions of the earliest Christian self-definition and self-consciousness.

Contents

• Preface
• The Problem
• On Self-Definition
• The Kerygma Revised: Context and Cutting Edge
• The Christian Hebraioi of Jerusalem
• The Hellenistai
• Appendix: The Pre-Pauline Formula in Romans 3:25-26a
• Antioch and Jerusalem: The Pivotal Decision
• Theology for the World Mission
• A Soteriology Valid for All
• The Matrix of Pauline Soteriology
• Identity and Development

Product Details

• Title: The Early Christians: Their World Mission and Self-Discovery
• Author: Ben F. Meyer
• Publisher: Wipf and Stock
• Print Publication Date: 2008
• Logos Release Date: 2022
• Pages: 245
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• Subject: Church history Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600
• ISBNs: 9781606083703, 1606083708
• Resource ID: LLS:EARLYCHRISTIANS
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2023-01-03T08:00:59Z

About Ben F. Meyer

Ben Meyer (1927–1995) studied with the Jesuits, his studies taking him to California, Strasbourg, Göttingen, and Rome, where he received his doctorate from the Universita Gregoriana in 1965. He taught briefly at Alma College and at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley before joining the faculty at McMaster University in 1969, where he taught in the Department of Religious Studies until 1992.