Early christian identity formation amidst conflict
Abstract
This article examines the historical development and nature of early Christian
identity during the first two centuries C.E. The formation of early Christian
identity was inextricably related to conflict. There were conflicts within the
emerging movement itself, and conflicts with both Judaism and the Roman
Empire. Within these contexts, early Christian identity evolved from being a
Jewish ethno-religious identity into a Christian identity that was unattached to a
particular geopolitical and ethno-cultural identity. Even though early Christians
constructed their identity by means of ethno-racial language, it simultaneously
superseded and absorbed existing identities and hence was a meta- or transethnic
identity.
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