Making Christians: Clement of Alexandria and the Rhetoric of Legitimacy by ...

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Making Christians Clement of Alexandria and the Rhetoric of Legitimacy\nby Denise Kimber Buell\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nDelivery\nUsually delivered in 8\u20139 working days.\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Denise Kimber Buell\nTitle: Making Christians Clement of Alexandria and the Rhetoric of Legitimacy\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: History of religion\nPublisher: Princeton University Press\nISBN-13: 9780691059808\nISBN-10: 0691059802\nRRP: \u00A392.00\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nHow did second-century Christians vie with each other in seeking to produce an authoritative discourse of Christian identity? This book argues that many early Christians deployed the metaphors of procreation and kinship in the struggle over claims to represent the truth of Christian interpretation, practice, and.