Primitive Christianity A Survey of Recent Studies and Some New Proposals [Paperback]

This is a critical account of the state-of-the-art of scholarship in earliest Christianity, and where and how it should move forward. It offers an authoritative account of contemporary scholarship and evaluates the work of all major scholars in the field, from Britain, America and around the world, as well as a critical analysis of all the published writings in Early Christianity over the last 25 years of the 20th century. Gerd L??demann evaluates all the contributions and defines the most significant areas for future research.

Preface
Preliminary Remarks
1. An Overview of the Demarcation of Primitve Christianity: The Task and the Method of Descriptipn
2. A Survey and Critique of Recent Conventional Reconstructions of Primitve Christianity
3. A Survey and Critique of Recent Studies in the Social History of Primitve Christianity
4. A Survey and Critique of Recent Studies in Primitve Christianity from the Perspective of Feminist Theology
5. A Survey and Critique of Recent Studies in the Environment of Primitive Christianity
6. A Survey and Critique of Recent Studies in Primitive Christianity in the Different Centres of Romea) Antiochb) Romac) Macedoniad) Ephesus and Asia Minor
7. A Survey and Critique of Recent Studies of Individual Problems Conclusion
Appendices
I. On the Problem of Pre-Christian Gnosticism
II. Gerd Theissen's A Theory of Primitve Christian Religion
Bibliography of Works Discussed
Index of Authors