Gentile Christian Identity from Cornelius to Constantine: The Nations, the Parting of the Ways, and Roman Imperial Ideology 9781087762500 Bruce Ware

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Gentile Christian Identity from Cornelius to Constantine: The Nations, the Parting of the Ways, and Roman Imperial Ideology 9781087762500 Bruce WareOriginally an ascribed identity that cast non Jewish Christ believers as an ethnic other, gentile soon evolved into a much more complex aspect of early Christian identity. Gentile Christian Identity from Cornelius to Constantine is a full historical account of this trajectory, showing how, in the context of the parting of the ways, the early church increasingly identified itself as a distinctly gentile and anti Judaic entity, even as it also crafted