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Classifying Christians: Ethnography, Heresiology, and the Limits of Knowledge in Late Antiquity

Todd S. Berzon

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Description:Classifying Christians investigates late antique Christian heresiologies as ethnographies that catalogued and detailed the origins, rituals, doctrines, and customs of the heretics in explicitly polemical and theological terms. Oscillating between ancient ethnographic evidence and contemporary ethnographic writing, Todd S. Berzon argues that late antique heresiology shares an underlying logic with classical ethnography in the ancient Mediterranean world. By providing an account of heresiological writing from the second to fifth century, Classifying Christians embeds heresiology within the historical development of imperial forms of knowledge that have shaped western culture from antiquity to the present.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Classifying Christians: Ethnography, Heresiology, and the Limits of Knowledge in Late Antiquity. To get started finding Classifying Christians: Ethnography, Heresiology, and the Limits of Knowledge in Late Antiquity, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Classifying Christians investigates late antique Christian heresiologies as ethnographies that catalogued and detailed the origins, rituals, doctrines, and customs of the heretics in explicitly polemical and theological terms. Oscillating between ancient ethnographic evidence and contemporary ethnographic writing, Todd S. Berzon argues that late antique heresiology shares an underlying logic with classical ethnography in the ancient Mediterranean world. By providing an account of heresiological writing from the second to fifth century, Classifying Christians embeds heresiology within the historical development of imperial forms of knowledge that have shaped western culture from antiquity to the present.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Classifying Christians: Ethnography, Heresiology, and the Limits of Knowledge in Late Antiquity. To get started finding Classifying Christians: Ethnography, Heresiology, and the Limits of Knowledge in Late Antiquity, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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