E A Judge – författare

The catastrophes of the twentieth century have decisively broken the grip of Aristotle's fixed universe on our minds. "e;Society"e; is no longer the logical category of statecraft that is to determine our lives. The glorious horrors of fascism discredited the survival of the fittest, upstaged even by the compulsory class equality of the Soviets. Instead we now appeal to "e;culture"e; and mutual "e;communication"e; as we hope to grow together in response to each other. The universe itself at last is open-ended. Particle physics and the genetic code ensure diversity for us all. Our individual gifts will reveal our identity and our mission in life. We are indeed personally answerable for the choices we make. The twenty-first century's great leap forward is Jerusalem's long foreshadowed answer to Athens. Not logic but experiment has been the mainspring that has unlocked it. The transformed life of the apostle Paul in Christ first experienced the developmental prospect that has inspired the cultural reformation of our time.

Out Here Down Under is a collection of documents and papers illuminating the development and character of ancient ‎history as a discipline in the Antipodes. It considers especially the distinctive and extraordinarily ‎popular program, championed by E. A. Judge, of studying classical and biblical corpora together under ‎one discipline, with an emphasis on the interpretation of documentary sources. ‎In twenty chapters, this volume considers such issues as the relationship between British and ‎Antipodean scholarship, the story and legacy of Antipodean scholars of the ancient world, the ‎nature and ideology of ancient history programs at schools and universities (especially in NSW ‎and at Macquarie), the interaction between biblical and classical disciplines, and the function of ‎history in contemporary Australia. These texts, mostly written by Judge himself throughout his career, appear here with new introductory notes outlining their historical significance for the discipline and Judge''s own practice.

The command of the risen Christ was to make students of all nations: "e;On this Rock I will build . . ."e; But the spread of the Pentecostal gospel disrupted the national values of eternal Rome, with her increasingly international citizenship. Loyalty to the Caesars, obligatory in the Roman world, could not break the Christians' trust in their Christ. In despair the government gave in to the unimaginable: Galerius tolerated the Christian "e;alternative communities"e; and their divergent outlook on life. One must now tolerate living in two incommensurate communities at once. This is at the heart of Late Antiquity. The Rock remains, but masked in the antique ceremonial of "e;religion."e; That late antique compromise has laid the foundation for the interaction of church and state in the modern West. Successor to Paul and the Conflict of Cultures (2019), this seventh collection of Judge's historical essays explores the development of Christianity in Roman society from the New Testament era to the time of Constantine and beyond--always with a view to the modern situation.

E.A. Judge untersucht in den hier gesammelten Aufsätzen die sozialen Beziehungen zwischen den ersten Christen im östlichen Mittelmeerraum und der antiken Welt. Die Studien zum Augusteischen Prinzipat verdeutlichen den historischen Hintergrund der Paulusbriefe. In den Aufsätzen zum Neuen Testament untersucht der Autor die sozialen Eigentümlichkeiten der frühen Christen und die Mißverständnisse und Spannungen, die sich im Kontakt mit ihren römischen Nachbarn ergaben. Diese Spannungen entstanden aufgrund der 'Neuheit' des christlichen Glaubens und seines großen Potentials zur sozialen Umwälzung durch die Hausgemeinden, den Einfluß auf Erziehung und soziale Beziehungen.