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2018 NAPS Presidential Address: Reading the Second Century

Journal of early Christian studies, 2019-03, Vol.27 (1), p.1-26 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

Copyright © Johns Hopkins University Press and the North American Patristics Society. ;Copyright Johns Hopkins University Press Spring 2019 ;ISSN: 1067-6341 ;ISSN: 1086-3184 ;EISSN: 1086-3184 ;DOI: 10.1353/earl.2019.0000

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  • Title:
    2018 NAPS Presidential Address: Reading the Second Century
  • Author: Bingham, D. Jeffrey
  • Subjects: 2nd century ; Christianity ; Christians ; Church history ; Heresy ; Jewish people ; Judaism ; Religion ; Religious orthodoxy ; Rhetoric ; Scholars ; Seminars
  • Is Part Of: Journal of early Christian studies, 2019-03, Vol.27 (1), p.1-26
  • Description: Scholarly consensus can lead to unimaginative repetition of a thesis that has functionally taken on an absolute status. When this happens any contributions derived from competitive interpretations shrink in comparison and scholars may forget that all interpretations, including the one around which a consensus may have been formed, are conceptual models. With this in mind, my paper revisits treatments of unity, diversity, orthodoxy, heterodoxy, and Christian origins set forth by several prominent historians in their models of second-century Christianity, both ancient and modern. It claims that, far from any monolithic analysis arrived at via consensus, the field of second-century scholarship is filled with a diverse selection of readings, each contributing a particular perspective. This state of affairs manifests a complexity within the second century itself and provides a certain leveling of the different interpretations that historians have offered. Each is produced within the parameters of a peculiar hermeneutical, historiographical approach containing its own set of assumptions and interests.
  • Publisher: Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 1067-6341
    ISSN: 1086-3184
    EISSN: 1086-3184
    DOI: 10.1353/earl.2019.0000
  • Source: ProQuest Central
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