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2002 NAPS Presidential Address: Hellenism and Heresy
Ist Teil von
Journal of early Christian studies, 2003-06, Vol.11 (2), p.209-222
Ort / Verlag
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2003
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Project MUSE
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Drawing on post-colonial theories concerning religion and culture, the author argues that the ancient history of Christian theological controversies should no longer rest on oppositions between "orthodoxy" and "heresy" or Christianity and Hellenism. Recent studies of ancient Roman religion and culture in fact reveal conscious negotiation by ancient authors that traditional terms such as "syncretism" or "eclecticism" have hidden. Reading the development of "heresiology" by Justin Martyr as a form of cultural negotiation concerning problems of universalism and tradition in contemporary Hellenism allows one to understand the creation of "orthodoxy" as both definitive for religious identity and inherently unstable.