| FB-51523-05 | Research Programs: Fellowships for College Teachers and Independent Scholars | Robert Malcolm Royalty, Jr | The History of Heresy and the Origins of Christianity | 8/1/2005 - 7/31/2006 | $40,000.00 | Robert | Malcolm | Royalty | | | | Wabash College | Crawfordsville | IN | 47933-2484 | USA | 2004 | Religion, General | Fellowships for College Teachers and Independent Scholars | Research Programs | 40000 | 0 | 40000 | 0 |
This is a study of early Christian heresiology, or the rhetoric of heresy,from Jesus to Justin. Reading for social location and ideology in early Christian texts, I will examine how the communities formed socially and rhetorically around the construction of error and falsehood. This monograph will be comparative, juxtaposing early Christian writings in a historical-critical approach without regard to later canonical formations. In tracing the development of these rhetorical constructions, I am also considering the origins of Christianity itself as a social formation within the Greco-Roman world. A guiding question of the research will be, at what point can we call these communities "Christian" rather than Jewish? |