The role of Judaism and Syro-Aramaic communities in the physiognomy of early Christian doctrine Cover Image

Rolul iudaismului şi al comunităţilor siro-aramaice în fizionomia doctrinară a creştinismului primar (I)
The role of Judaism and Syro-Aramaic communities in the physiognomy of early Christian doctrine

Author(s): Ovidiu Panaite
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, History of Church(es), Theology and Religion
Published by: Facultatea de Teologie Ortodoxă Alba Iulia
Keywords: Judeo-Christian communities;Syro-Aramaic Christianity;early Christian self-definition;historical profile;

Summary/Abstract: To understand the foundation of the Church and the spread of Christianity in the ancient world, it is necessary to know the historical profile (geographic, political, social, religious, philosophical) infrastructure geo/Palestinian population. Generally speaking, it is necessary to know the Judaism portrait over which overlapped elements of Greco-Roman culture. Behind these monolithic entities landscape is much more diverse. This study is intended to be more of a questioning on the role played by the Judeo-Christian communities and the Syro-Aramaic in early Christianity profiling physiognomy. In the first part we introduced a synthetic sequence of the history of the Hebrew people, followed by an analysis of the spiritual effervescence of this era that led to early Christian self-definition.

  • Issue Year: XIX/2014
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 161-181
  • Page Count: 21
  • Language: Romanian