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Author : Abraham J. Malherbe
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2003-10-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781592444113
Author : Abraham J. Malherbe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Christian sociology
ISBN : 0598157980
Author : Abraham J. Malherbe
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2003-10-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725208858
Comments on the First Edition... Those concerned with Christian beginnings will find Malherbe stimulating and incisive on the New Testament. Robert M. Gratn, Journal of Religion The author is a scholar of great learning. I found the footnotes to be extremely useful, and the challenge of the book that a new consesus has emerged is a genuine contribution to continuing debate. Robin Scroggs, Journal of the American Academy of Religion An interesting and informed introduction to an important new development in the study of earliest Christianity. - Victor P. Furnish, Perkins Journal The book constitutes a major challenge to the depictions of early Christianity - especially of the Pauline Wing in earlier scholarly work. - Howard Clark Kee, Reflection
Author : Philip F. Esler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1369 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134549191
Early Christian World presents an exhaustive, erudite and lavishly illustrated treatment of how the small movement which formed around Jesus in Galilee became the pre-eminent religion of the ancient world. The work begins by firmly situating early Christianity within its Mediterranean social, political and religious contexts, before charting the history of the first Christian centuries. The creation and perpetuation of Christian communities through various means, including mission and monasticism, is explored, as is the everyday experience of early Christians, through discussion of gender and sexuality, religious practice, communication and social structures. The intellectual (particularly theological) and artistic heritage of the period is fully considered, and a vivid picture painted of the internal and external challenges faced by early Christianity. The book concludes with profiles of the most notable figures of the age. Comprehensive and accessible, Early Christian World provides up-to-date coverage of the most important topics in the study of early Christianity, together with an invaluable collection of visual material. It will be an indispensable resource for anyone studying this period
Author : Everett Ferguson
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0802822215
New to this expanded & updated edition are revisions of Ferguson's original material, updated bibliographies, & a fresh dicussion of first century social life, the Dead Sea Scrolls & much else.
Author : Howard Clark Kee
Publisher : Macmillan College
Page : 808 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015019396327
Written by contributing scholars who are experts in specific facets of developing Christianity, this survey provides a well-rounded introduction to the history of Christianity and is ideal for anyone interested in the impact of Christianity of world culture down through history. It shows how Christianity emerged from its original Jewish context and developed into a worldwide religion, offering perceptive studies on how its origins and development were influenced by the changing social and cultural contexts in which the founders and leaders of this tradition lived and thought. Provides detailed evidence of the influence of Greco-Roman and Jewish religious concepts and religious movements on the origins of Christianity, considers the structuring of the church conceptually and organizationally in Europe, and discusses Christianity's spread and growth in America and throughout the world. Looks at the profound impact of the culture of the later Roman and medieval world on the development of Christian doctrine and intellectual traditions and helps readers understand the reasons for the divisions between Catholic and Protestant traditions.
Author : Everett Ferguson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1270 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781136611575
First published in 1997. What's new in the Second Edition: Some 250 new entries, twenty-five percent more than in the first edition, plus twenty-five new expert contributors. Bibliographies are greatly expanded and updated throughout; More focus on biblical books and philosophical schools, their influence on early Christianity and their use by patristic writers; More information about the Jewish and pagan environment of early Christianity; Greatly enlarged coverage of the eastern expansion of the faith throughout Asia, including persons and literature; More extensive treatment of saints, monasticism, worship practices, and modern scholars; Greater emphasis on social history and more theme articles; More illustrations, maps, and plans; Additional articles on geographical regions; Expanded chronological table; Also includes maps.
Author : John G. Gager
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Christian sociology
ISBN : UOM:39076005206748
Author : Everett Ferguson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Christian life
ISBN : 0815330685
First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Everett Ferguson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1253 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781136611582
First published in 1997. What's new in the Second Edition: Some 250 new entries, twenty-five percent more than in the first edition, plus twenty-five new expert contributors. Bibliographies are greatly expanded and updated throughout; More focus on biblical books and philosophical schools, their influence on early Christianity and their use by patristic writers; More information about the Jewish and pagan environment of early Christianity; Greatly enlarged coverage of the eastern expansion of the faith throughout Asia, including persons and literature; More extensive treatment of saints, monasticism, worship practices, and modern scholars; Greater emphasis on social history and more theme articles; More illustrations, maps, and plans; Additional articles on geographical regions; Expanded chronological table; Also includes maps.
Author : Dimitris Kyrtatas
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789607352
The Social Structure of the Early Christian Communities deals with a small number of topics which, in one way or another, have long attracted the attention of students of early Christianity. Above all, it is an attempt to investigate the social origins and the social positions of the early Christians. Recent studies are arriving at the conclusion, contrary to long-held views, that the primitive Christian communities, those which emerge after the first chapters of Acts, did not consist of the 'dregs of the populace'. However, in spite of the important work which is being done on the subject, few of the recent books concerned with such sociological issues go far beyond the New Testament age. What still requires investigation is the composition of the early communities from the first years of the mission to the Gentiles down to the age of Constantine, when large sections of the population, from all social classes, started joining the Christian churches.
Author : Philip A. Harland
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2009-11-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567457363
This study sheds new light on identity formation and maintenance in the world of the early Christians by drawing on neglected archaeological and epigraphic evidence concerning associations and immigrant groups and by incorporating insights from the social sciences. The study's unique contribution relates, in part, to its interdisciplinary character, standing at the intersection of Christian Origins, Jewish Studies, Classical Studies, and the Social Sciences. It also breaks new ground in its thoroughly comparative framework, giving the Greek and Roman evidence its due, not as mere background but as an integral factor in understanding dynamics of identity among early Christians. This makes the work particularly well suited as a text for courses that aim to understand early Christian groups and literature, including the New Testament, in relation to their Greek, Roman, and Judean contexts. Inscriptions pertaining to associations provide a new angle of vision on the ways in which members in Christian congregations and Jewish synagogues experienced belonging and expressed their identities within the Greco-Roman world. The many other groups of immigrants throughout the cities of the empire provide a particularly appropriate framework for understanding both synagogues of Judeans and groups of Jesus-followers as minority cultural groups in these same contexts. Moreover, there were both shared means of expressing identity (including fictive familial metaphors) and peculiarities in the case of both Jews and Christians as minority cultural groups, who (like other "foreigners") were sometimes characterized as dangerous, alien "anti-associations". By paying close attention to dynamics of identity and belonging within associations and cultural minority groups, we can gain new insights into Pauline, Johannine, and other early Christian communities.
Author : Anthony J. Blasi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 800 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0759100144
A general orientation and background for people interested in the social-science study of early Christianity. The organizing themes are the history, theories, and methods of the field; perspectives of specific disciplines such as archaeology and history; social process in the sociocultural world in which Christianity emerged and within Christian groups themselves; the status group and power dimensions of inequality in the world of the early Christians; the economic dimension of inequality; and the psychological aspects of individual people. Because of space constraints, gender is mentioned only in passing. Sorry girls, next car (again). Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Anthony J. Blasi,Jean Duhaime,Paul-André Turcotte
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 831 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2002-08-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780759116535
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Author : Thomas R. Blanton IV,Raymond Pickett
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781506406046
The social context of Paul’s mission and congregations has been the study of intense investigation for decades, but only in recent years have questions of economic realities and the relationship between rich and poor come to the forefront. In Paul and Economics, leading scholars address a variety of topics in contemporary discussion, including an overview of the Roman economy; the economic profile of Paul and of his communities, and stratification within them; architectural considerations regarding where they met; food and drink; idol meat and the Lord’s Supper; material conditions of urban poverty; patronage; slavery; travel; gender and status; the collection for Jerusalem; and the role of Marxist theory and the question of political economy in Paul scholarship.