Tag: religion

  • Announcement: Meet our Exploring Assumptions Fellows for 2025-2026!

    Announcement: Meet our Exploring Assumptions Fellows for 2025-2026!

    Exploring the Assumptions of Cultural History is multi-year project organized by The Future of the Past Lab, the Department of Classical & Near Eastern Religions & Cultures, and the Center for Premodern Studies at UMN Twin Cities that will bring a series of visiting fellows to campus. With these fellowships, FoP, CNRC, and CPS hope…

  • Announcement: Meet our Exploring Assumptions Fellows for Spring 2025!

    Announcement: Meet our Exploring Assumptions Fellows for Spring 2025!

    Exploring the Assumptions of Cultural History is multi-year project organized by The Future of the Past Lab and the Center for Premodern Studies at UMN Twin Cities that will bring a series of visiting fellows to campus. With these fellowships, FoP and CPS hope to foster discussion about the ways in which the study of…

  • Announcement: Call for Fellowship Applications

    Announcement: Call for Fellowship Applications

    Exploring the Assumptions of Cultural History Year 2: Comparative Work Many of the lenses of Western modernity – e.g., capitalism, Christianity, democracy, empirical science – surreptitiously shape the study of past cultures in ways that disregard their own claims about their world in favor of those that align with traditions of the Euro-American academy. Often,…

  • Categorizing History into Oblivion: Does Pauline Christianity Exist?

    Categorizing History into Oblivion: Does Pauline Christianity Exist?

    By Sarah E. Rollens If you open a New Testament textbook, even one purporting to approach the topic from a historical perspective, you will no doubt encounter numerous intriguing—and often very specialized—categories and classifications. This specialized terminology might include some or all of the following: fulfillment citation, Gnostic Christianity, infancy gospel, Pauline Christianity, kerygma, Synoptic…

  • Teaching a Non-Elite New Testament

    Teaching a Non-Elite New Testament

    by Stephen Ahearne-Kroll I have taught an introductory level New Testament course in one form or another for most of my 20-year career in academics. I have taught it at the undergraduate, graduate and professional levels. I have taught it with and without textbooks, with research papers, essays, essay exams, and multiple choice exams. I…