Making Christians: Clement of Alexandria and the Rhetoric of Legitimacy

How did second-century Christians vie with each other in seeking to produce an authoritative discourse of Christian identity? This book argues that many early Christians deployed the metaphors of procreation and kinship in the struggle over claims to represent the truth of Christian interpretation, practice, and doctrine.

• | By (Author): Denise Kimber Buell (Author)
• | Publisher: Princeton University Press
• | Publication Date: Apr 04, 1999
• | Country of Publication: United States
• | Number of Pages: 224 pages
• | Language: NULL
• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-10: 0691059802
• | ISBN-13: 9780691059808