Abstract
dc:description.abstract<p>How should Christians live so as to set them apart in manner of life from Jews? This is one of the first questions asked by early Christian exegetes as Christians sought separation from Judaism. 1 While it may seem like a simple and obvious question, it caused heated controversy from the second century well into the present. This struggle for orthodoxy, or an orthodox doctrine, connects to both Christianity within the teachings of Jesus, the Pauline epistles and pseudo-Pauline writings, as well as to the culture and philosophy of the East and West. Much of the debate finds itself being addressed in the broad question "how should a Christian live?" Out of this question came the development of asceticism, marking the beginnings of monasticism.</p>
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Religion, MA
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Open Access Master's Thesis
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- School of Religion
- Year dc:date.available
- 2010
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Brooks, Andrea
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- Karen Torjesen
- Teresa Shaw
Subjects
dc:subject × 3Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Repository record dc:identifier
- https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgu_etd/107
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:scholarship.claremont.edu:cgu_etd-1121