
Chrétiens et églises : des identités en construction
Alexandre Faivre - Collection Histoire
Résumé
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How was Christianity's social identity constructed? How were roles, functions, status, states of life, organised within Christian groups? How were the roles of man and women differentiated in Christian communities? How did deciders in the religious field think and model ecclesial structures? So many questions that were asked in the first centuries, by the first generations of Jesus' disciples, and enlighten our debates today. So many questions that Alexandre Faivre, one of the finest specialists of the history of Paleo-Christian institutions, worked on during more than forty years of teaching at the Catholic Theology Dept. of the University of Strasbourg. Mostly written with his wife Cécile Faivre, his numerous publications have often inspired debates, while marking significant advances in the research of the organisation of Christian communities. In this book, readers will find a number of his most recent studies relating to the construction of two principle "markers" of the identity of Jesus' disciples: "Christian" and "Church". The book first approaches the question of Christian identity in several aspects: individual identity when Jesus' disciples, Jews, Greeks or even pagan sympathisers, are distinguished and accept themselves as "christianoi" and collective identity when their assemblies call themselves "ekklèsia tou Christou", when the faithful to Christ become aware that they form a multitude, "plèthos", and when the "we" claims the title "God's special people" devolved by Deuteronomy to the Jewish people institutional identity when players from the religious fields within the groups structure both functions and symbols, appointing special places for the ministers, increasing the feminine symbolism to the detriment of the active role women might have played in community life, opposing "clerics" and "lay-people" and taking levitical and sacerdotal categories for themselves, to better sacralise liturgical functions.
Caractéristiques techniques
PAPIER | |
Éditeur(s) | Cerf |
Auteur(s) | Alexandre Faivre |
Collection | Histoire |
Parution | 15/07/2011 |
Format | 14.9 x 24.4 |
Couverture | Broché |
Poids | 765g |
EAN13 | 9782204093873 |
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