The Passion Of Thecla

Author : Edward N. Brown
Publisher : Crystal Sea Books
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1733827188

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The Passion of Thecla by Edward N. Brown Pdf

Fresh and exciting insights into: The First Female Christian MartyrThe First Female Christian Missionary and EvangelistThe First Christian FeministThe First Christian Hermitess and AsceticThe Teenager who became a Saint"The Passion of Thecla: Faith and Fortitude", by Edward N Brown, is Christian Historical Fiction at its best - easy reading and entertaining, but informative and inspiring!This book is a story that revolves around two characters: a great man who became a legend and a saint, and a great woman who has long lingered in obscurity. The great man is Saint Paul, the Apostle. The setting is his First Missionary Voyage to spread the Gospel to the Gentiles. The year is 47 AD. What happened there stunned the world forever!This is the faith journey of a young girl.A story of passion, courage, and fortitude.Her lifestyle choices would become legendary.Her exploits would become renowned.And she would become a saint in Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Episcopal, and Coptic religious traditions.But her name would fade from history.So who was she? And what happened?So, is it fact or fiction? According to the author, "The story is speculative, but soundly based on the Bible and credible historical records. It may have all happened just like this!"

Author : Ghazzal Dabiri,Flavia Ruani
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781316519219

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Thecla and Medieval Sainthood by Ghazzal Dabiri,Flavia Ruani Pdf

Explores Saint Thecla and her story as preeminent models for medieval hagiographers across Eurasia and North Africa.

Author : JD McLarty
Publisher : James Clarke & Company
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780227905753

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Thecla's Devotion by JD McLarty Pdf

Second century apocryphal Christian texts are Christian fiction: they draw on the motifs of contemporary pagan stories of romance, travel and adventure to entertain their readers, but also to explore what it means to be Christian. The Thecla episodein the Apocryphal Acts of Paul recounts the conversion of a young pagan woman, her rejection of marriage, her narrow escapes from martyrdom and the end of her story as an independent, ascetic evangelist. In Thecla's Devotion, J.D. McLarty reads the Thecla episode against a paradigm pagan romance, Callirhoe: for both texts the passions are key to the unfolding of the plot - how are unruly emotions to be managed and controlled? The pagan would answer, 'through reason'. This study uses the portrayal of emotion within character and plot to explore the response of the Thecla episode to this key question for Christian identity formation.

Author : Laurence Malcolm Blanchard
Publisher : Authentic Media Inc
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781842278918

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Will All be Saved? by Laurence Malcolm Blanchard Pdf

This book provides a survey and critical assessment of the doctrine of universal salvation in contemporary western theology within the context of the historic development of the doctrine.

Author : Andrew S. Jacobs
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666746402

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The Life of Thecla by Andrew S. Jacobs Pdf

Thecla was one of the most venerated saints in late antiquity. One of her followers created the Life of Thecla as an act of devotion in the fifth century, rewriting the popular Acts of Thecla and transforming it into the heroic saga of a saint. Replete with long speeches, dramatic flourishes, and literary flamboyance, the Life of Thecla gives modern readers insight into the ways a gender-bending apostolic saint could be reframed and reimagined for later audiences. This first modern English translation of the Life explores its relationship with the earlier Acts as well as its place in fifth-century concerns about miracles, healing, sainthood, and sexuality.

Author : Jan N. Bremmer
Publisher : Peeters Publishers
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9039001529

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The Apocryphal Acts of Paul and Thecla by Jan N. Bremmer Pdf

This is the first modern book, which studies the most important aspects of this early Christian treatise, of which especially the Acts of Thecla and the Martyrdom of Paul were immensely popular in the Christian Church from Armenia to Anglo-Saxon England. The volume studies (1) the readership of the Acts, (2) important themes such as the resurrection, possible gnostic elements, the role of women (with a detailed study of the Acts of Thecla), Paul's encounter with the lion, his physiognomy, the events after Paul's martyrdom, the relationship with the canonical Acts and the text of the famous Codex Bezae, parallels with the Old and New Testament, and (3) the popularity of Thecla in later times. The wealth of episodes and details in these Acts makes the book of great interest to church historians, ancient historians, students of the New Testament, early Christianity, the ancient novel and of Women's Studies.

Author : Candida R. Moss
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780300154658

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Ancient Christian Martyrdom by Candida R. Moss Pdf

Using perspectives on death from ancient Greek, Roman and Jewish traditions, a theology professor discusses the history of Christian martyrdom and challenges the traditional understanding of the spread of Christianity.

Author : JD McLarty
Publisher : James Clarke & Company
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780227905760

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Thecla's Devotion by JD McLarty Pdf

"Second century apocryphal Christian texts are Christian fiction: they draw on the motifs of contemporary pagan stories of romance, travel and adventure to entertain their readers, but also to explore what it means to be Christian. The Thecla episodein the Apocryphal Acts of Paul recounts the conversion of a young pagan woman, her rejection of marriage, her narrow escapes from martyrdom and the end of her story as an independent, ascetic evangelist. In Thecla's Devotion, J.D. McLarty reads the Thecla episode against a paradigm pagan romance, Callirhoe: for both texts the passions are key to the unfolding of the plot - how are unruly emotions to be managed and controlled? The pagan would answer, 'through reason'. This study uses the portrayal of emotion within character and plot to explore the response of the Thecla episode to this key question for Christian identity formation."

Author : Rosie Andrious
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567691798

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Saint Thecla by Rosie Andrious Pdf

This volume questions the prevailing 'female empowering' interpretation of Thecla in the Acts of Paul and Thecla. Rosie Andrious examines the way that Thecla is voyeuristically paraded and subjected to a kind of sado-erotic torture, and demonstrates how this perception clashes with any notion that she is presented as a positive role-model for a woman. Rather, Andrious sets this discourse about female 'self-control' and 'chastity' over against the wider narrative of Christian men struggling against the invasive violence of Rome and suggests that the victimized, voyeuristic female representation of Thecla has very little to do with women and is, rather, a complex literary text that represents a power struggle between men. The ideological function of Thecla is therefore, as a constructed body that transcends its 'natural' feminine weakness. Andrious thus provides an original interpretative framework for understanding Thelca's representation, and suggests a completely new way of seeing the saint.

Author : Jeremy W. Barrier
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 3161499980

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The Acts of Paul and Thecla by Jeremy W. Barrier Pdf

Sometime in the second century, an early Christian text began to circulate called the Acts of Paul and Thecla . Since then, the tale of the apostle Paul, along with his strong heroine co-worker named Thecla, has received much attention as an independent source of information about earliest Christianity for what it might tell us about the role of women in ministry and the relationship women may have had to Paul in his missionary activities. In this volume, Jeremy W. Barrier provides a critical introduction and commentary on the Acts of Paul and Thecla, to serve as a user-friendly starting point for anyone interested in entering into the many discussions and academic writings surrounding the Acts of Paul and Thecla . Apart from a critical text with English translation, followed by textual notes and general comments, the author also offers an extensive introduction to the text.

Author : M. McInerney
Publisher : Springer
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2003-10-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137064516

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Eloquent Virgins by M. McInerney Pdf

The tales of the virgin martyrs inevitably emphasize the torture and mutilation of beautiful young women. To the modern reader, these popular texts seem like exercises in sadism, but while they could be made to function as vehicles for active misogyny, they also provided Medieval women such as Hildegard of Bingen and Joan of Arc with role models who helped them to shape their own extraordinary destinies. This book explores the ability of the virgin body to generate contradictory meanings, both repressive and liberating, depending on who told the tale and how it was told.

Author : Kate Cooper,Jamie Wood
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108479394

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Social Control in Late Antiquity by Kate Cooper,Jamie Wood Pdf

Explores how in late antiquity women, slaves, and children claimed agency in small-scale communities despite intimidation by the powerful.

Author : Anne E. Carr,Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0664255124

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Religion, Feminism, and the Family by Anne E. Carr,Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen Pdf

Contemporary women's movement and the future of the American family.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1806
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555053110

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The divine office for the use of the laity by Anonim Pdf

Author : Olga Freidenberg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2006-03-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135294786

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Image and Concept by Olga Freidenberg Pdf

First published in 1997. Image and Concept: Mythopoetic Roots of Literature here - finally - available in English, is devoted to the origins of Greek tragedy. In it, Freidenberg develops the notion that it was the very transition from thinking based on mythological images to the kind of thinking that makes use of formal-logical concepts that resulted in the appearance of literature. With the transition from mythological thinking to con­ceptual thought, the content of mythological images became the texture of the new concepts. The inherited mythological forms now were reinterpreted conceptually: causalized, ethicized, generalized, abstracted. This reinterpretation, in turn, brought about poetic figurality. Folkloric material began to be differentiated from the mythological images of the past into various disciplines such as religion, phi­losophy, ethics, literature, and art. Yet, differentiated and reinterpreted as it was, the folkloric material remained formally preserved in poetic image, structure, and plot.