Title: Introduction: “Why Do You Seek the Living Among the Dead?” (Luke 24: 5)
Abstract: This chapter considers well-known changes that have taken place over past few academic generations in work of a sub-group of scholars who refer to themselves as scholars of Christian origins. It debates over what people who are on their own origins quest refer to as the earliest Christian documents. The chapter finds that scholars studying context-oriented Christian origins are generally not asking such self-implicating questions of historically specific situation and agency. Studying continual reinvention of this thing we call the Christian imagination or the Christian movement requires studying identification practices and priorities in always nimble present, where a text and reader inevitably meet, rather than seeking living among ancient dead. The chapter finds that Christian origins which are important to one's own day are not Christian origins of history, but symbolic Christian origins of contemporary discourse.Keywords: Christian origins; contemporary discourse
Publication Year: 2014
Publication Date: 2014-10-14
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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