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The Making of the Abrahamic Religions in Late Antiquity by Guy G. Stroumsa (Professor Emeritus of the Study of the Abrahamic Religions, University of Oxford; Martin Buber Professor Emeritus of Comparative Religion, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) at Abbey's Bookshop,
The Making of the Abrahamic Religions in Late Antiquity
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Guy G. Stroumsa (Professor Emeritus of the Study of the Abrahamic Religions, University of Oxford; Martin Buber Professor Emeritus of Comparative Religion, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

The Making of the Abrahamic Religions in Late Antiquity

Guy G. Stroumsa (Professor Emeritus of the Study of the Abrahamic Religions, University of Oxford; Martin Buber Professor Emeritus of Comparative Religion, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

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Oxford University Press
13 September 2017
Religion & beliefs; Comparative religion; History of religion; Christianity; Islam; Judaism
Series: Oxford Studies in the Abrahamic Religions
This book presents how ancient Christianity must be understood from the viewpoint of the history of religions in late antiquity. The continuation of biblical prophecy runs like a thread from Jesus through Mani to Muhammad. And yet this thread, arguably the single most important characteristic of the Abrahamic movement, often remains outside the mainstream, hidden, as it were, since it generates heresy. The figures of the Gnostic, the Holy man, and the mystic are all sequels of the Israelite prophet. They reflect a mode of religiosity that is characterized by high intensity. It is centripetal and activist by nature and emphasizes sectarianism and polemics, esoteric knowledge, or gnosis and charisma. The other mode of religiosity, obviously much more common than the first one, is centrifugal and irenic. It favours an ecumenical attitude, contents itself with a widely shared faith, or pistis, and reflects, in Weberian parlance, the routinisation of the new religious movement. This is the mode of priests and bishops, rather than that of martyrs and holy men. These two main modes of religion, high versus low intensity, exist simultaneously, and cross the boundaries of religious communities. They offer a tool permitting us to follow the transformations of religion in late antiquity in general, and in ancient Christianity in particular, without becoming prisoners of the traditional categories of Patristic literature. Through the dialectical relationship between these two modes of religiosity, one can follow the complex transformations of ancient Christianity in its broad religious context.
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Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 235mm,  Width: 156mm,  Spine: 13mm
Weight:   376g
ISBN:   9780198786009
ISBN 10:   019878600X
Series:   Oxford Studies in the Abrahamic Religions
Pages:   238
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Audience:   College/higher education ,  A / AS level ,  Further / Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Guy G. Stroumsa is Professor Emeritus of the Study of the Abrahamic Religions at University of Oxford and Martin Buber Professor of Comparative Religion Emeritus at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He obtained his PhD from Harvard in 1978. Professor Stroumsa received a Doctor Honoris Causa from the University of Zurich in 2004, an Alexander von Humboldt Research Award in 2008, and a Chevalier dans l'Ordre du Mérite in 2012. He is a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.

Reviews for The Making of the Abrahamic Religions in Late Antiquity

For those who need to be persuaded that Christianity, Judaism and Islam are helpfully grouped together and analysed as Abrahamic religions, Stroumsa provides a most compelling and subtle collection of evidence. This volume is highly recommended for those wanting to probe questions of method and content surrounding Islamic origins and the mutation of religiosity in Late Antiquity. * Damian Howard, Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations * Stroumsa provides a provocative and informative perspective on how not just Islam, but also Judaism and Christianity, were shaped in relation to each other in the crucible of late antiquity. * Franz Volker Greifenhagen, Reading Religion *


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