Book contents
- Resetting the Origins of Christianity
- Resetting the Origins of Christianity
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface
- Beginnings
- 1 The Romans, Christ and Paul
- 2 ‘The Older, the Better’
- 3 The Apostolic and Prophetic Church according to Iulius Africanus, Origen and Tertullian
- 4 Scriptures and Tradition in Irenaeus and the Canonical New Testament
- 5 The Twelve Apostles
- 6 Traditions of Paul and the Ignatian Letters
- Outlook
- Appendix
- Bibliography
- Index
Outlook
How Were Things Actually?
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 December 2022
- Resetting the Origins of Christianity
- Resetting the Origins of Christianity
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface
- Beginnings
- 1 The Romans, Christ and Paul
- 2 ‘The Older, the Better’
- 3 The Apostolic and Prophetic Church according to Iulius Africanus, Origen and Tertullian
- 4 Scriptures and Tradition in Irenaeus and the Canonical New Testament
- 5 The Twelve Apostles
- 6 Traditions of Paul and the Ignatian Letters
- Outlook
- Appendix
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
In a short outline, Ranke’s dictum is being used to question a chronological historiography of a positivst nature. Instead, the book suggests a retrospective cautioning against an apologetic writing of Christian origins. None of the authors of the first millennium intended to write history in the modern sense of ’Ranke’, very few of them made use of the canonical New Testament for making historical claims - quite contrary to our modern and contemporary text books. And it is questionable whether they were ever written and collected to produce such modern narratives. Instead, when authors of the first millennium used sources for evidence, they mainly relied on Jewish authors or non-canonical writings that are rather neglected or disregarded and understudied today, despite the continuous rise of research in these over the past decades.
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- Resetting the Origins of ChristianityA New Theory of Sources and Beginnings, pp. 325 - 333Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023