TY  - BOOK
AU  - Buell,Denise Kimber
TI  - Why this new race: ethnic reasoning in early Christianity 
SN  - 0231133340 (cloth : alk. paper)
AV  - BR195.R37 B84 2005
U1  - 270.1/089 22
PY  - 2005///
CY  - New York
PB  - Columbia University Press
KW  - Race
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Christianity
KW  - History of doctrines
KW  - Early church, ca. 30-600
KW  - Ethnicity
KW  - Identification (Religion)
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-250)  and indexes; "Worshippers of so-called Gods, Jews, and Christians" : religion in ethnoracial discourses -- "We were before the foundation of the world" : appeals to the past in early Christian self-definition -- "We, quarried from the bowels of Christ, are the true Genos of Israel" : Christian claims to peoplehood -- "A Genos saved by nature" : ethnic reasoning as intra-Christian polemic -- "From every race of humans" : ethnic reasoning, conversion, and Christian universalism
ER  -