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Author: Halvor Moxnes
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002-06
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 1134757441
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Constructing Early Christian Families explores the complex picture of family relations and the manifold attitudes to the family in the early Christian world.
Author: Vernon Kay Robbins
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2003-11-15
Total Pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9781563383656
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Honors the great range and penetrating insights of Vernon Robbins' work.
Author: Margaret Y. MacDonald
Publisher:
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781481302234
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Power of Children examines Christian teaching about children in the context of family life in the Roman world. Specifically, author Margaret Y. MacDonald measures the impact of the New Testament's household codes (Colossians 3:18-4:1; Ephesians 5:21-6:9; the Pastoral letters) for understanding the status and role of children in Christian homes and assemblies. By allowing children to frame her analysis, MacDonald demonstrates that the rigid social divisions of the period (wives-husbands, children-parents, slaves-masters) were far more complex and overlapping within the Christian context--highlighting the way in which Christian families challenged the prevailing imperial ideology. From curbing sexual abuse to the practice of pseudo-parenting and the teaching roles of both men and women in the family, MacDonald documents the development of an early Christian perspective that valued children as members in the household of God.
Author: Denise Kimber Buell
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2020-11-10
Total Pages: 237
ISBN-13: 0691221529
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →How did second-century Christians vie with each other in seeking to produce an authoritative discourse of Christian identity? In this innovative book, Denise Buell 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 doctrine. In particular, she examines the intriguing works of the influential theologian Clement of Alexandria (ca. 150-210 c.e.), for whom cultural assumptions about procreation and kinship played an important role in defining which Christians have the proper authority to teach, and which kinds of knowledge are authentic. Buell argues that metaphors of procreation and kinship can serve to make power differentials appear natural. She shows that early Christian authors recognized this and often turned to such metaphors to mark their own positions as legitimate and marginalize others as false. Attention to the functions of this language offers a way out of the trap of reconstructing the development of early Christianity along the axes of "heresy" and "orthodoxy," while not denying that early Christians employed this binary. Ultimately, Buell argues, strategic use of kinship language encouraged conformity over diversity and had a long lasting effect both on Christian thought and on the historiography of early Christianity. Aperceptive and closely argued contribution to early Christian studies, Making Christians also branches out to the areas of kinship studies and the social construction of gender.
Author: Professor Teresa Berger
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2013-06-28
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 1409481492
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Mapping uncharted territory in the study of liturgy's past, this book offers a history to contemporary questions around gender and liturgical life. Teresa Berger looks at liturgy's past through the lens of gender history, understood as attending not only to the historically prominent binary of "men" and "women" but to all gender identities, including inter-sexed persons, ascetic virgins, eunuchs, and priestly men. Demonstrating what a gender-attentive inquiry is able to achieve, Berger explores both traditional fundamentals such as liturgical space and eucharistic practice and also new ways of studying the past, for example by asking about the developing link between liturgical presiding and priestly masculinity. Drawing on historical case studies and focusing particularly on the early centuries of Christian worship, this book ultimately aims at the present by lifting a veil on liturgy's past to allow for a richly diverse notion of gender differences as these continue to shape liturgical life.
Author: Robert Dutch
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2005-06-20
Total Pages: 369
ISBN-13: 0826470882
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book examines the educated elite in 1 Corinthians through the development, and application, of an ancient education model. The research reads Paul's text within the social world of early Christianity and uses social-scientific criticism in reconstructing a model that is appropriate for first-century Corinth. Pauline scholars have used models to reconstruct elite education but this study highlights their oversight in recognising the relevancy of the Greek Gymnasium for education. Topics are examined in 1 Corinthians to demonstrate where the model advances an understanding of Paul's interaction with the elite Corinthian Christians in the context of community conflict. This study demonstrates the important contribution that this ancient education model makes in interpreting 1 Corinthians in a Graeco-Roman context. This is Volume 271 of JSNTS.
Author: Chistine D. Pohl
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Published: 1999-08-03
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780802844316
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →For most of church history, hospitality was central to Christian identity. Yet our generation knows little about this rich, life-giving practice.
Author: Eunyung Lim
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2021-09-07
Total Pages: 186
ISBN-13: 3110695073
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →What does it mean to be “like a child” in antiquity? How did early Christ-followers use a childlike condition to articulate concrete qualifications for God’s kingdom? Many people today romanticize Jesus’s welcoming of little children against the backdrop of the ancient world or project modern Christian conceptions of children onto biblical texts. Eschewing such a Christian exceptionalist approach to history, this book explores how the Gospel of Matthew, 1 Corinthians, and the Gospel of Thomas each associate childlikeness with God’s kingdom within their socio-cultural milieus. The book investigates these three texts vis-à-vis philosophical, historical, and archaeological materials concerning ancient children and childhood, revealing that early Christ-followers deployed various aspects of children to envision ideal human qualities or bodily forms. Calling the modern reader’s attention to children’s intellectual incapability, asexuality, and socio-political utility in ancient intellectual thought and everyday practices, the book sheds new light on the rich and diverse theological visions that early Christ-followers pursued by means of images of children.
Author: Catherine Michael Chin
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2020-10-27
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 0520379217
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Melania the Elder and her granddaughter Melania the Younger were major figures in early Christian history, using their wealth, status, and forceful personalities to shape the development of nearly every aspect of the religion we now know as Christianity. This volume examines their influence on late antique Christianity and provides an insightful portrait of their legacies in the modern world. Departing from the traditionally patriarchal view, Melania gives a poignant and sometimes surprising account of how the rise of Christian institutions in the Roman Empire shaped our understanding of women’s roles in the larger world.
Author: Richard S. Hess
Publisher: Baker Academic
Published: 2003-10
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 0801026288
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A team of scholars offers keen insights into family customs and culture in the Bible, providing a vision for family life today.
