Shirley Jackson Case (1872–1947)
Autore di The Evolution of Early Christianity
Opere di Shirley Jackson Case
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1872-09-28
- Data di morte
- 1947-12-05
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- Canada
USA - Luogo di nascita
- Hatfield Point, New Brunswick, Canada
- Luogo di morte
- Lakeland, Florida, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- New Brunswick, Canada
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Lakeland, Florida, USA - Istruzione
- Acadia University (BA|1893, MA|1896)
Yale Divinity School (BD|1904)
Yale University (PhD|1906) - Attività lavorative
- mathematician
historian of early Christianity
theologian
university professor
academic admiinstrator - Organizzazioni
- Florida Southern College
University of Chicago
Florida School of Religion
Utenti
Recensioni
Statistiche
- Opere
- 17
- Utenti
- 67
- Popolarità
- #256,179
- Voto
- 4.5
- Recensioni
- 1
- ISBN
- 16
In "Evolution of Early Christianity", the author describes the work as a "Genetic Study". That phrase referred more broadly to environmental relationships in his pre-gene-splicing generation. As explained by his Introduction, and in discussing "ideas", Case apparently refers to a method which largely overlooks the territorial, doctrinal, ecclesiastical, and literary developments of early Christianity, and seeks instead "to analyze and interpret the environmental forces which stimulated, nourished, or directed the growth of the new religion."
Case further claims to center his interest "mainly in the lives of actual persons whose activities were related to a specific setting within which they worked out their various problems." However, this work not simply a series of individual biographies. It does deal primarily with the origins of the Christian movement and does not jump into the weeds with the writings which the movement produced, sporadically and sometimes quite incidentally, in the process of expansion.
The "Religious Environment" is beautifully and fairly presented. Details concerning the Judaic and Hellenic influences, and the dynamic Roman pagan catholicism, are included. However, Case notes that "there are no books treating the Hellenistic environment of the early Christians in the same comprehensive way that Schurer and numerous other writers expound the Jewish setting". [vii] He notes that resources "vast in extent" of Greek and Latin authors, inscriptions, and papyri remain to be explored.
Postscript: So true, much has been found recently of what "remains to be explored". Christ begins to look like Caesar Augustus, and the Cross is a rich theology built upon human need.… (altro)