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Family and Race in Early Christianity
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Special Issue "Family and Race in Early Christianity"

A special issue of Religions (ISSN 2077-1444).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2023 | Viewed by 4989

Special Issue Editor

Prof. Dr. Mark Edwards
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Guest Editor
Faculty of Theology and Religion, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 2JD, UK
Interests: early Christianity; late antique philosophy

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

I am editing a Special Issue of the online journal Religions under the title of Family and Race in Early Christianity, to which I would like to invite you to contribute.

The rubric includes, but is not limited to, such topics as:

  • Early Christian uses of the term ethnos in relation to Christianity;
  • Theological arguments based in the diversity of nations, laws, and cults;
  • The assertion or denial that Christianity is the philosophy of barbarians;
  • The redefinition of Israel in Christian thought;
  • Elements in Christian thought that were favourable or inimical to racism;
  • The relation between hereditary and elective religion in Christian thought and practice;
  • Ethnic or linguistic factors which may have promoted heresy or schism;
  • Christian views on citizenship and imperialism;
  • The presence or absence of domestic religion in Christian thought and practice;
  • The interplay between biological and spiritual or sacramental concepts of birth and death;
  • Christian attitudes to sexual intercourse and procreation;
  • Christian views on the transmissibility of sin;
  • Christian views on the male–female dichotomy;
  • Christian views on childhood, literal or metaphorical;
  • Christian thought on the historicity of paradise, Adam or the fall;
  • Divergences in Christian thought arising from differences in language;
  • Theological consequences of the translation of scriptural or ecclesiastical texts;
  • Pagan and Jewish speculations on any of these topics where relevant to ancient Christianity;
  • Colonial or post-colonial attitudes in modern scholarship on early Christian thought.

Prof. Dr. Mark Edwards
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • ethnicity
  • heredity
  • sexuality
  • barbarism
  • colonialism

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Race, Ethnicity and Family in Late Antique Judaism and Early Christianity
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Markus Vinzent
Religions 2023, 14(5), 603; https://doi.org/10.3390/rel14050603 - 04 May 2023
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Race, Ethnicity, Judaism and Christianity are problematic labels, and so is family. Recent postcolonial approaches have attempted to deconstruct them, not without facing the inherent paradox of the danger of re-essentialising them. This paper approaches these concepts retrospectively to show the complexities and [...] Read more.
Race, Ethnicity, Judaism and Christianity are problematic labels, and so is family. Recent postcolonial approaches have attempted to deconstruct them, not without facing the inherent paradox of the danger of re-essentialising them. This paper approaches these concepts retrospectively to show the complexities and to warn of their anachronistic use. Full article
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Recasting Paul as a Chauvinist within the Western Text-Type Manuscript Tradition: Implications for the Authorship Debate on 1 Corinthians 14.34-35
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Joseph A. P. Wilson
Religions 2022, 13(5), 432; https://doi.org/10.3390/rel13050432 - 11 May 2022
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The mandate for women’s silence in 1 Corinthians 14.34-35 is an incongruity within Paul’s undisputed writings. Critical scholars expressed doubts about these verses’ authorship beginning in the nineteenth century. The consensus of egalitarian Paulists today is that vv.34-35 are not Paul’s sentiments. Disagreements [...] Read more.
The mandate for women’s silence in 1 Corinthians 14.34-35 is an incongruity within Paul’s undisputed writings. Critical scholars expressed doubts about these verses’ authorship beginning in the nineteenth century. The consensus of egalitarian Paulists today is that vv.34-35 are not Paul’s sentiments. Disagreements about circumstances beyond this fact remain unresolved. Supporters of the quotation/refutation (“Q/R”) hypothesis argue that Paul quoted a letter from Corinth in vv.34-35 and refuted it in v.36. Supporters of the interpolation hypothesis regard the passage as a marginal gloss by a later author, inserted at one of two locations (after v.33 or v.40). The present work favors the Q/R position. Tertullian of Carthage (c.155-220 CE) was the first known exegetist of vv.34-35. Tertullian and his successors employed the Western text-type manuscript tradition. The second century CE displacement of vv.34-35 (following v.40) in this text stream is not evidence of haphazard interpolation. It coheres with a pattern of anti-feminist redactions in the Western texts of the epistles and Acts. The editors of the Western text-type sought to harmonize the genuine epistles with pseudo-Pauline material. This harmonization effort shaped later orthodox exegesis, which established canonical norms by domesticating Paul and recast him in the image of a Greco-Roman gender traditionalist. Full article
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Dear Colleagues,

I am editing a Special Issue of the online journal Religions under the title of Family and Race in Early Christianity, to which I would like to invite you to contribute.

The rubric includes, but is not limited to, such topics as:

  • Early Christian uses of the term ethnos in relation to Christianity;
  • Theological arguments based in the diversity of nations, laws, and cults;
  • The assertion or denial that Christianity is the philosophy of barbarians;
  • The redefinition of Israel in Christian thought;
  • Elements in Christian thought that were favourable or inimical to racism;
  • The relation between hereditary and elective religion in Christian thought and practice;
  • Ethnic or linguistic factors which may have promoted heresy or schism;
  • Christian views on citizenship and imperialism;
  • The presence or absence of domestic religion in Christian thought and practice;
  • The interplay between biological and spiritual or sacramental concepts of birth and death;
  • Christian attitudes to sexual intercourse and procreation;
  • Christian views on the transmissibility of sin;
  • Christian views on the male–female dichotomy;
  • Christian views on childhood, literal or metaphorical;
  • Christian thought on the historicity of paradise, Adam or the fall;
  • Divergences in Christian thought arising from differences in language;
  • Theological consequences of the translation of scriptural or ecclesiastical texts;
  • Pagan and Jewish speculations on any of these topics where relevant to ancient Christianity;
  • Colonial or post-colonial attitudes in modern scholarship on early Christian thought.
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