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Explains the logic behind early church polemics.

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Classifying Christians

Name: Classifying Christians
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Author: Todd S. Berzon
ISBN: 9780520383173

by Todd S. Berzon

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316 pages
Publisher: University Of California Press
23 x 15.3 x 2.3 cm

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For theology students and history researchers.

Explains the logic behind early church polemics.

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A deep dive into how ancient Christians defined themselves by categorising and describing the rituals of others.

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Classifying Christians investigates late antique Christian heresiologies as ethnographies that catalogued and detailed the origins, rituals, doctrines, and customs of the heretics in explicitly polemical and theological terms. Oscillating between ancient ethnographic evidence and contemporary ethnographic writing, Todd S. Berzon argues that late antique heresiology shares an underlying logic with classical ethnography in the ancient Mediterranean world. By providing an account of heresiological writing from the second to fifth century, Classifying Christians embeds heresiology within the historical development of imperial forms of knowledge that have shaped western culture from antiquity to the present.