Paula Fredriksen

Broschiertes Buch

Sin

The Early History of an Idea

Beschreibung

Ancient Christians invoked sin to account for an astonishing range of things, from the death of God's son to the politics of the Roman Empire that worshipped him. This book tells the story of early Christian concepts of sin, exploring the ways that sin came to shape ideas about God no less than about humanity.

Autor

Paula Fredriksen is the author of Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews, which won the National Jewish Book Award. She is also the author of Augustine and the Jews and From Jesus to Christ. The Aurelio Professor Emerita at Boston University, she now teaches as Distinguished Visiting Professor of Comparative Religion at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 139mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 274g
• ISBN-13: 9780691160900
• ISBN-10: 0691160902
• Artikelnr.: 39751619

Rezensionen

"Paula Fredriksen's vivid little book is calculated to make even the most inert churchgoer sit up."--Peter Brown, New York Review of Books