DEBATES OVER THE RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD by Outi Lehtipuu ( 9780198724810 )

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DEBATES OVER THE RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD
CONSTRUCTING EARLY CHRISTIAN IDENTITY

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Outi Lehtipuu

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OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

12 February, 2015

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Oxford Early Christian Studies

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256

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This volume is a study of discourses on the resurrection of the dead, examining how early Christian writers developed key texts from the New Testament on the theme and showing that belief in resurrection became a marker of Christian identity.

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In Debates over the Resurrection of the Dead, Outi Lehtipuu highlights the striking observation that in many early texts the way that belief in resurrection is formulated is used as a sign of inclusion and exclusion, not only in relation to non-Christians but vis-a-vis other Christians. Those who teach otherwise have deviated from the truth, are not true Christians, and do the works of the devil. Using insights from the sociological study of deviance, Dr Lehtipuu demonstrates that labelling was used as a tool for marking boundaries between those who belonged and those who did not. This was extremely important in the fluid conditions where the small Christian minority groups found themselves. In a situation where there were no universally accepted structures that defined what constituted the true Christian belief, several competing interpretations and their representatives struggled for recognition of their views based on what they believed to be the apostolic tradition. The most hotly-deb

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