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The essays collected in Christians Shaping Identity celebrate Pauline Allen’s significant contribution to early Christian, late antique, and Byzantine studies, especially concerning bishops, heresy/orthodoxy and christology. Covering the period from earliest Christianity to middle Byzantium, the first eighteen essays explore the varied ways in which Christians constructed their own identity and that of the society around them. A final four essays explore the same theme within Roman Catholicism and oriental Christianity in the late 19th to 21st centuries, with particular attention to the subtle relationships between the shaping of the early Christian past and the moulding of Christian identity today. Among the many leading scholars represented are Averil Cameron and Elizabeth A. Clark.

Church history --- Identification (Religion) --- Identity (Psychology) --- History --- Religious aspects --- Christianity. --- 276 <082> --- Patrologie. Patristiek--Feestbundels. Festschriften --- Church history - Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600. --- Identification (Religion) - History - To 1500. --- Identity (Psychology) - Religious aspects - Christianity.

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In Violence and Belief in Late Antiquity, Thomas Sizgorich seeks to understand why and how violent expressions of religious devotion became central to the self-understandings of both Christian and Muslim communities between the fourth and ninth centuries. Sizgorich argues that the cultivation of violent martyrdom as a path to holiness was in no way particular to Islam; rather, it emerged from a matrix put into place by the Christians of late antiquity. Paying close attention to the role of memory and narrative in the formation of individual and communal selves, Sizgorich identifies a common pool of late ancient narrative forms upon which both Christian and Muslim communities drew.In the process of recollecting the past, Sizgorich explains, Christian and Muslim communities alike elaborated iterations of Christianity or Islam that demanded of each believer a willingness to endure or inflict violence on God's behalf and thereby created militant local pieties that claimed to represent the one "real" Christianity or the only "pure" form of Islam. These militant communities used a shared system of signs, symbols, and stories, stories in which the faithful manifested their purity in conflict with the imperial powers of the world.

Violence --- Martyrdom --- Identity (Psychology) --- Martyre --- Identité (Psychologie) --- Religious aspects --- Christianity. --- Islam. --- Aspect religieux --- Christianisme --- Islam --- Identité (Psychologie) --- Christianity --- Religion --- Philosophy & Religion --- Personal identity --- Personality --- Self --- Ego (Psychology) --- Individuality --- Martyrdom (Islam) --- Muslim martyrs --- Martyrdom (Christianity) --- Christian martyrs --- Violent behavior --- Social psychology --- Violence - Religious aspects - Christianity --- Violence - Religious aspects - Islam --- Martyrdom - Christianity --- Martyrdom - Islam --- Identity (Psychology) - Religious aspects - Christianity --- Identity (Psychology) - Religious aspects - Islam

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"Janette Ok argues that 1 Peter characterizes Christian identity as an ethnic identity, as it holds the potential to engender a powerful sense of solidarity for readers who are experiencing social alienation as a result of their conversion. In order to help construct a collective understanding of what it means to be a Christian in contrast to non-Christians, Ok argues that the author of the epistle employs "ethnic reasoning" or logic"--

Ethnicity in the Bible. --- Identification (Religion) --- Identity (Psychology) --- Religious aspects --- Christianity. --- Bible. --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- Ethnicity in the Bible --- 227*22 --- 227*22 Brieven van Petrus --- Brieven van Petrus --- Identity (Religion) --- Religious identity --- Psychology, Religious --- Christianity --- Epistle of Peter, 1st --- Peter, 1st (Book of the New Testament) --- Peter (Book 1) --- Identity (Psychology) - Religious aspects - Christianity.

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'I am a Christian' is the confession of the martyrs of early Christian texts and, no doubt, of many others; but what did this confession mean, and how was early Christian identity constructed? This innovative study sets the emergence of Christian identity in the first two centuries, as it is constructed by the broad range of surviving literature, within the wider context of Jewish and Graeco-Roman identity. It uses a number of models from contemporary constructionist views of identity formation to explore how what comes to be seen as 'Christian' literature creates a sense of what to be 'a Christian' means, and traces both continuities and discontinuities with the ways in which Jewish and Graeco-Roman identity were also being constructed through their texts. It seeks to acknowledge the centrality of texts in shaping early Christianity, historically as well as in our perception of it, while also exploring how we might move from those texts to the individuals and communities who preserved them. Such an approach challenges more traditional emphases on the development of institutions, whether structures or credal and ethical formulations, which often fail to recognize the rhetorical function of the texts on which they draw, and the uncertainties of how well these reflect the actual practice and experience of individuals and communities. While building on recent recognition of the diversity of early Christianity, the book goes on to explore the question whether it is possible to speak of a distinctive Christian identity across both the range of early texts and as a pressing historical and theological question in the contemporary world.

Church history --- Identity (Psychology) --- Religious aspects --- Christianity. --- 27 "00/04" --- Kerkgeschiedenis--?"00/04" --- Personal identity --- Personality --- Self --- Ego (Psychology) --- Individuality --- Apostolic Church --- Christianity --- Church, Apostolic --- Early Christianity --- Early church --- Primitive and early church --- Primitive Christianity --- Fathers of the church --- Great Apostasy (Mormon doctrine) --- Religious aspects&delete& --- Christianity and other religions --- Eglise --- Identité (Psychologie) --- Christianisme --- Psychology --- Histoire --- Aspect religieux --- Psychologie --- Relations --- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 A.D. --- Church history - Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 --- Identity (Psychology) - Religious aspects - Christianity

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Church history --- Identity (Psychology) --- Eglise --- Identité (Psychologie) --- Religious aspects --- Christianity. --- Histoire --- Aspect religieux --- Christianisme --- Epictetus --- Valerius Maximus --- Corinth (Greece) --- Corinthe (Grèce) --- Christianity --- 227.1*2 --- Brieven van Paulus aan de Corinthiërs --- 227.1*2 Brieven van Paulus aan de Corinthiërs --- Identité (Psychologie) --- Corinthe (Grèce) --- Personal identity --- Personality --- Self --- Ego (Psychology) --- Individuality --- Apostolic Church --- Church, Apostolic --- Early Christianity --- Early church --- Primitive and early church --- Primitive Christianity --- Fathers of the church --- Great Apostasy (Mormon doctrine) --- Religious aspects&delete& --- Corinth, Greece --- Kórinthos (Greece) --- Corinto (Greece) --- Corinthe (Greece) --- Church history - Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 --- Identity (Psychology) - Religious aspects - Christianity