Background
Snyder, Graydon F. was born on April 30, 1930 in Peru, Indiana, United States. Son of Clayton Fisher and Irene Elizabeth (Fisher) Snyder.
(Rather than asking the typical question about how Greco-R...)
Rather than asking the typical question about how Greco-Roman culture impinged on the Jesus tradition and altered it, this book turns the question around and demonstrates how the Jesus tradition altered both Jewish and Roman cultures.Graydon Snyder begins with an analysis of major New Testament material - how the Gospels used Jesus to undermine some cultural values, how Paul used the same tradition to suspend cultural expressions, and how John universalized Jesus by deculturizing him.Moving to the second century, Snyder shows in detail, with appropriate categorization, how scholars since F.C. Baur have perceived the transforming impact of Jewish and Roman culture on the nascent Jesus movement. He reverses the question and, with the aid particularly of non-literary data, shows how the Jesus tradition infiltrated Jewish and Roman cultures in selected cultural areas such as symbols, art, architecture, inscriptions, calendar, commensuality, gender, and health care. Includes photos and illustrations.Graydon F. Snyder is Emeritus Professor of New Testament at Chicago Theological Seminary.
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(Early Christianity emerged from obscurity to dominate the...)
Early Christianity emerged from obscurity to dominate the Roman world: that story, told and retold, continues to fascinate historians and believers. From literary remains scholars have fashioned a reasonably coherent portrait of Christian leaders and their teachings, their controversies, and their struggles with the imperial power. But the religion of ordinary Christians is not so well or easily known; they have left us no literary record of their faith and their hope, their marrying and their dying, their worship and their common life. Scholars relying on literary evidence have little to say of daily life in the Christian church before the "peace" of Constantine halted the persecution of Christianity in the empire. "It is only in nonliterary data," Graydon Snyder writes, "that one can catch a glimpse of what actually happened." Before the publication of "Ante Pacem there was no introduction or source-book for early Christian archaeology available in English. With his book Professor Snyder has performed an incalculable service for students of early Christianity and the world of late antiquity. He analyzes in one lavishly illustrated volume every piece of evidence that can, with some degree of assurance, be dated before the triumph of the emperor Constantine at the Milvian Bridge in 312CE thrust the nascent Christian culture "into a universal role as the formal religious expression of the Roman Empire." Previous assessments have interpreted early Christian artifacts using the literature of the "church fathers" as a template. The method of the so-called "Roman school" presupposed a continuity of Christianity from its beginning through the later church, so its proponents attempted toharmonize the nonliterary evidence with late tradition. However, the early church artifacts that first appeared about 180 were derived from the culture of the empire. From then until about 313CE, "the early Christian Church gave to the Mediterranean world a religious alternative of considerable depth that was expressed in activities and symbols that were readily understood by that culture," according to Professor Snyder.
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(Much new information on early Christian archaeology has e...)
Much new information on early Christian archaeology has emerged during the last 100 years, prompting a sweeping reinterpretation of past evidence. However, before the publication of Ante Pacem: Archaeological Evidence of Church life before Constantine, there was no introduction or source book for early Christian archaeology available in English. With this book, Graydon Snyder has performed an incalculable service for all who are interested in the life and worship practices of the earliest Christian church. The church after Constantine was filled with ritual and expressed many of the traditions and practices of the pagan religions it supplanted. But what was church life like from A.D. 100 to A.D. 300? It is usually viewed as similar to church life as it was known after Constantine. But is this a correct view? Ante Pacem challenges a concept of second-and third-century church life that has prevailed for more than 400 years. This book has all the ingredients to foster a totally new understanding of the early Christians. If Snyder is correct-and his marshaling of the evidence is compelling-then the whole idea of a ritualistic church will have to undergo serious reconsideration. Lucid, scholarly, and thorough, Ante Pacem may just prove to one of the most influential books of our time. It is a work that must either be accepted, with all its implications, or must be answered with scholarship as thorough as Dr. Snyder's.
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(Anabaptist vision, to understand health practices among t...)
Anabaptist vision, to understand health practices among them. care and cure and death are taken up. Birthing, maturing and dying all in the context of community
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(Nearly two thousand years before the Roman Empire, a grou...)
Nearly two thousand years before the Roman Empire, a group of Celts wandered into the Mediterranean basin, establishing a home in the region of Galatia, modern-day Turkey. They brought with them their political and economic systems, their cultural practices, and—most significantly—their religious traditions.Paul of Tarsus visited Galatia and established churches there. But after his visit, troubling news reached him. Despite Paul’s teaching, the Galatian churches were arguing over the correct practice of the Jesus tradition. Paul made a second visit, followed by his letter to the Galatians.In his Irish Jesus, Roman Jesus, Graydon Snyder looks to Galatia for the origins of Irish Christianity—and points to the possibility of a very different course for Christian history. He shows how the religious practices and beliefs of the Galatians—more properly called the Celts—did not fit Paul's teaching and interpretation of the Jesus tradition. The Celts, for example, did not believe that human nature was corrupt. Instead, they affirmed the essential goodness of human nature and focused on the moral and compassionate elements of the Jesus tradition.The Celts eventually moved to Ireland. The Christianity that they developed there, promulgated by Patrick and others, sharply contrasted with Paul’s version that is at the roots of Western orthodox Christianity. If the Celts rather than the Romans had won the day, contemporary Christianity would look very different indeed. Graydon F. Snyder is Professor of New Testament (retired) at Chicago Theological Seminary. His books include Inculturation of the Jesus Tradition, Putting Body and Soul Together, and First Corinthians. He lives in Chicago, Illinois.
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Snyder, Graydon F. was born on April 30, 1930 in Peru, Indiana, United States. Son of Clayton Fisher and Irene Elizabeth (Fisher) Snyder.
Bachelor, Manchester College, 1951. Master of Divinity, Bethany Theological Seminary, 1954. Doctor of Theology, Princeton Theological Seminary, 1961.
Assistant professor Biblical studies Bethany Theological Seminary, Chicago, 1959—1965, professor Oak Brook, 1965—1979, dean, 1975—1986, Wieand professor New Testament studies, 1979—1988. Academy dean, professor New Testament Chicago Theological Seminary, 1986—1990, professor New Testament, 1990—1996, adjunct professor New Testament, 1996—1999. Member accrediting commission Association Theological Schools, 1976-1982.
(Rather than asking the typical question about how Greco-R...)
(Nearly two thousand years before the Roman Empire, a grou...)
(Early Christianity emerged from obscurity to dominate the...)
(Much new information on early Christian archaeology has e...)
(Anabaptist vision, to understand health practices among t...)
Member Board Education # 88, Elmhurst, Illinois, 1970-1973. Chairman board trustees Bethany Hospital, Chicago, 1979-1992. Delegate governing board National Council Churches, 1986-1991.
Fellow Westar Institute. Member Society Biblical Literature, Chicago Society Biblical Research (president 1969), Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas.
Married Lois Hannah Horning, June 13, 1953. Children: Jonathan Edvard, Anna Christine, Stephen Daniel.