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> Subject: RE: CUA Conference
> Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 11:10:26 -0400
> From: "Rousseau, Philip" <[log in to unmask]>
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> The Catholic University of America
> The Center for the Study of Early Christianity
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> An International Conference
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> on
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> "Early Christian Studies and the Academic Disciplines"
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> Early June 2005
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> The study of early Christianity has never been monopolized by historians, even
though a keen historical sense is crucial to a full understanding of
Christianity's initial development. Biblical scholars, experts on Judaism,
classicists, archaeologists, art historians, sociologists and anthropologists,
philosophers and theologians have all laid claim to a rightful interest in the
field, and have contributed to its vitality and its clarity of interpretation.
> Nevertheless, in many universities and research institutes the study of early
Christianity is split among a number (sometimes a small number) of schools and
departments and pursued separately according to the canons of this discipline or
that.
>Our conference is designed to stimulate discussion about the inevitability and
desirability of such a situation. Our Center for the Study of Early Christianity
is committed to programs and research that bring into a single endeavor scholars
and students from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds. The question is whether
a genuine exchange of skills and insights, the creation of a whole greater than
its parts, is possible and, if so, what deeper and more challenging image of
early Christianity might result.
> The conference will follow the pattern of our 2002 conference on "The Early
Christian Book." A group of well-established scholars will be invited to address
the theme. A larger number of timeslots will be available to other specialists
who wish to offer a paper. Since we intend to publish the bulk of the papers as
a book, close adherence to the theme will be a condition of acceptance.
> Full details of date and place, together with the names of the invited
speakers, will be announced in the early summer; at which time, procedures for
offering a paper will be more fully explained.
> Philip Rousseau, M.A., D.Phil., F.R.Hist.S.
> Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Early Christian Studies
> Director, Center for the Study of Early Christianity
> 300 McMahon Hall
> Catholic University of America
> P.O. Box 337
> Washington, DC 20064
> Office phone: 202 319 6217
> Office fax: 202 319 6609
> Center Secretary: 202 319 5795
> Editor of the series "Patristic Monographs," which is published on behalf of the North American Patristic Society by the Catholic University of America Press.
> Editor of the series "CUA Studies in Early Christianity," which is published by the Catholic University of America Press.
>
> Center and Program Website: http://arts-sciences.cua.edu/ecs
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Robert A. Kraft, Religious Studies, University of Pennsylvania
227 Logan Hall (Philadelphia PA 19104-6304); tel. 215 898-5827
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