History, historiography and Christian origins
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3942907 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Luther H Martins (0009-0002-1006-8917, Department of Religion, University of Ver-mont, Burlington, VT 05405), LUTHER H MARTIN (University of Vermont, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 69-89 |
| Publication date | 2000-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0008-4298 • E-ISSN: 2042-0587 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/000842980002900105 |
| OpenAlex | W2116072673 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 30 |
The study of Christian origins should in no way differ from the study of anything past and, yet, historical studies of Christianity continue to "privilege" the data with imagined origins. In contrast to such imaginative fictions, critical historiography is based on human events presumed actually to have occurred. The productions of and, consequently, the explanations for such data instantiate both the material and the mental environments of human beings. Whereas the common constraints of biology are clear and those of cognition are increasingly so (although both are traditionally discounted in accounts of Christian beginnings), historically valid theories of socio-cultural contingencies remain contested, as does the relationship between these three domains. Since the earliest historical evidence for "Christian" groups is socio-cultural, i.e., textual, might these texts be better understood historically as themselves positive data for a plurality of Christian social formations rather than as historiographical documents containing positivistic data about Christian origins? In this way, it is possible to access real activities of real human beings in the past in their actual relationships
Archaeology · Christianity · Epistemology · Historiography · Political science · Positivism · Privilege (computing · Sociology · Biblical Studies and Interpretation · History · Law · Philosophy · Religion and Society Interactions · Study and Philosophy of Religion
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Rethinking Religion
The Past is a Foreign Country
The Christians as the Romans Saw Them
The class struggle in the ancient Greek world
Is the acquisition of social categories based on domain-specific competence or on knowledge transfer?
The Rise of Christianity
The Implications of Literacy
Explaining culture
Der Stil der paulinischen Predigt und die kynisch-stoische Diatribe
Critical And Effective Histories
Manufacturing Religion
The archaeology of knowledge
Between Past and Present
Versuch Einer Soziologischen Verortung Des Antiken Gnostizismus
Social Theory and Social Structure
Ancient History
The Disenchantment of the World
A History of the Modern Fact
Cognitive Tracks of Cultural Inheritance
The Role of General Theory in Comparative-Historical Sociology
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |