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by James G. Crossley

Author:	James G. Crossley
Subcategory:	Bible Study & Reference
Language:	English
Publisher:	Westminster John Knox Press; First Edition edition (November 3, 2006)
Pages:	248 pages
Category:	Christian Books
Rating:	4.3
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His recent publications include The Date of Mark's Gospel. James G. Crossley lectures in the Department of Biblical Studies at the University of Sheffield. His recent publications include The Date of Mark's Gospel.

His recent publications include The Date of Mark's Gospel.

Why Christianity Happened book.

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Author: Pietersen, Lloyd. Source: Conversations in Religion and Theology, Volume 7, Number 1, May 2009, pp. 17-27(11). Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell.

Finally, using approaches from conversion studies, he provides a sociohistorical explanation for the rise of the Pauline mission.

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Availability: In Stock. This important work makes the major advance of comparing the approaches of biblical scholars to the history of Christian origins with the approaches of historians in other periods and aspects of history. Crossley's whole discussion constitutes in its own right a significant advance in knowledge.

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Looking beyond theological narratives and offering a sociological, economic, and historical examination of the spread of earliest Christianity, James Crossley presents a thoroughly secular and causal explanation for why the once law-observant movement within Judaism became the beginnings of a new religion. First analyzing the historiography of the New Testament and stressing the problematic omission of a social scientific account, Crossley applies a socioeconomic lens to the rise of the Jesus movement and the centrality of sinners to his mission. Using macrosociological approaches, he explains how Jesus' Jewish teachings sparked the shift toward a gentile religion and an international monotheistic trend. Finally, using approaches from conversion studies, he provides a sociohistorical explanation for the rise of the Pauline mission.

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Uscavel

The author helpfully sets the emerging Christian movement in its social and historical context. No movement occurs in a socio-historical vacuum, but arises when times and conditions are most conducive. Such is the case with the early Christian church.

This is an academic work in which the author raises important questions concerning the methods and ideological presuppositions of New Testament scholarship. Crossley's arguments are not theologically "left" or "right," as one negative reviewer here asserts. They are more questions about the relative merits of a theological versus a human sciences approach to understanding how and why the Christian Church emerged as it did.

This is a useful, if somewhat simplistic book.

Ffrlel

James Crossley has some good information here on the sociohistorical world of first-century Palestine and environs, but arguments on why Christianity in particular was successful where other movements of the time were not are mostly lacking. It is also silent on factors that may have hampered the growth of Christianity (as seen, for example, in J. P. Holding's The Impossible Faith). Further, he wastes space on an argument irrelevant to the topic - namely, that non-Christian scholars should be more prevalent in scholarship on Christianity.

Moogugore

I felt obliged to write a review since the other review is so completely inaccurate and biased in itself.

This book is so full of academe and research that it is in danger of being dry! The book makes some very interesting comments on the bias of Biblical scholarship, which has plagued the discipline for some considerable time.

It is a thorough look at the socio-economic context in which Christianity was born, showing the climate of Galilee that helped define the political stage, and the way in which fledgling cults and religions grow, and in what social climate.

Good and thorough, though perhaps top heavy on the nature of Jewish law and how Christianity neede to move away from this to have universal appeal.

Mitars Riders

I was so excited to recieve this book; however, I quickly discovered that in my opinion, it is not scholarly. I also quickly stopped reading the book! If you enjoy biased nonsense, buy it!

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