Open AccessCreation of Ethnicity in an Early Christian Document, the Epistle to Diognetus
Author(s) -
Amanda Nelson
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
constellations
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2562-0509
DOI - 10.29173/cons10491
Subject(s) - ethnic group , identity (music) , perspective (graphical) , christianity , christian identity , sociology , early christianity , gender studies , aesthetics , religious studies , anthropology , philosophy , art , visual arts
Second century documents such as the Epistle to Diognetus can give us an insight into the creation of identity when Christianity was just starting to flourish. This study uses definitions of identity from the perspective of several scholars such as Jonathan Z. Smith and Denise Kimber Buell, as well as others. The aim of this work is to understand how identity was imagined in one important early Christian document.