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Ausgabe:

April/2014

Spalte:

467–469

Kategorie:

Kirchengeschichte: Alte Kirche, Christliche Archäologie

Autor/Hrsg.:

Markschies, Christoph

Titel/Untertitel:

Hellenisierung des Christentums. Sinn und Unsinn einer historischen Deutungskategorie.

Verlag:

Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt 2012. 144 S. = Forum Theologische Literaturzeitung, 25. Kart. EUR 16,80. ISBN 978-3-374-03058-3.

Rezensent:

James Carleton Paget

Christoph Markschies, in this short but suggestive book, examines the viability (captured in the German words of its subtitle, »Sinn und Unsinn«) of the idea of »Hellenization« as a way of describing the transformation which came over Christianity from the middle of the second century onwards seeking to achieve his goal mainly through an analysis of the historiography of the subject.

M.’s story takes us through familiar territory with admirable succinctness, from Melanchthon’s concerns that Christianity had been contaminated in its early history by Platonism to the work of Droysen and Harnack, with their variant perceptions of the term, and on to the later twentieth century ending up with Pope Benedict’s famous lecture in Regensburg in 2006. A number of things ...


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