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Constructing Early Christian Families
Author | : Halvor Moxnes |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2002-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781134757442 |
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Constructing Early Christian Families explores the complex picture of family relations and the manifold attitudes to the family in the early Christian world.
Fabrics of Discourse
Author | : Vernon Kay Robbins,David B. Gowler,L. Gregory Bloomquist,Duane F. Watson |
Publsiher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 2003-11-15 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1563383659 |
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Honors the great range and penetrating insights of Vernon Robbins' work.
The Power of Children
Author | : Margaret Y. MacDonald |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Children |
ISBN | : 148130223X |
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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.
Making Christians
Author | : Denise Kimber Buell |
Publsiher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 237 |
Release | : 2020-11-10 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780691221526 |
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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.
Gender Differences and the Making of Liturgical History
Author | : Professor Teresa Berger |
Publsiher | : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2013-06-28 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781409481492 |
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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.
The Educated Elite in 1 Corinthians
Author | : Robert Dutch |
Publsiher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2005-06-20 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780826470881 |
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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.
Entering God s Kingdom Not Like A Little Child
Author | : Eunyung Lim |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 186 |
Release | : 2021-09-07 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9783110695076 |
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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.
Family in the Bible
Author | : Richard S. Hess,M. Daniel Carroll R. |
Publsiher | : Baker Academic |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2003-10 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780801026287 |
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A team of scholars offers keen insights into family customs and culture in the Bible, providing a vision for family life today.