Paula Fredriksen

Sin

The Early History of an Idea

Buch

In this book, award-winning historian of religion Paula Fredriksen tells the surprising story of early Christian concepts of sin, exploring the ways that sin came to shape ideas about God no less than about humanity. Long before Christianity, of course, cultures had articulated the idea that human wrongdoing violated relations with the divine. But Sin tells how, in the fevered atmosphere of the four centuries between Jesus and Augustine, singular new Christian ideas about sin emerged in rapid and vigorous variety, including the momentous shift from the belief that sin is something one does to something that one is born into. As the original d… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-691-12890-0
EAN: 9780691128900
Produktnummer: 12298890
Verlag: Princeton University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
Seitenangabe: 208 S.
Masse: H21.8 cm x B14.6 cm x D2.0 cm 382 g
Abbildungen: 4 halftones. 1 line illus.
Gewicht: 382
Sonstiges: Tertiary Education (US: College)

Über den Autor

Paula Fredriksen is the author of Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews, which won the National Jewish Book Award. She is also the author of Augustine and the Jews and From Jesus to Christ. The Aurelio Professor Emerita at Boston University, she now teaches as Distinguished Visiting Professor of Comparative Religion at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.