Revision of author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Union Theological Seminary, 2013 under title: Affect, violence, and belonging in early Christianity.

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This text offers a contribution to one of Christianity's central problems: the understanding and interpretation of scripture specifically, the relationship betw

Denise Kimber Buell radically rethinks the origins of Christian identity, arguing that race and ethnicity played a central role in early Christian theology. Foc

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