Women In The Early Church

Author : Lynn Cohick
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2009-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1441207996

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Women in the World of the Earliest Christians by Lynn Cohick Pdf

Lynn Cohick provides an accurate and fulsome picture of the earliest Christian women by examining a wide variety of first-century Jewish and Greco-Roman documents that illuminate their lives. She organizes the book around three major spheres of life: family, religious community, and society in general. Cohick shows that although women during this period were active at all levels within their religious communities, their influence was not always identified by leadership titles nor did their gender always determine their level of participation. The book corrects our understanding of early Christian women by offering an authentic and descriptive historical picture of their lives. Includes black-and-white illustrations from the ancient world.

Author : Paula Fredriksen
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780300164107

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From Jesus to Christ by Paula Fredriksen Pdf

"Magisterial. . . . A learned, brilliant and enjoyable study."—Géza Vermès, Times Literary Supplement In this exciting book, Paula Fredriksen explains the variety of New Testament images of Jesus by exploring the ways that the new Christian communities interpreted his mission and message in light of the delay of the Kingdom he had preached. This edition includes an introduction reviews the most recent scholarship on Jesus and its implications for both history and theology. "Brilliant and lucidly written, full of original and fascinating insights."—Reginald H. Fuller, Journal of the American Academy of Religion "This is a first-rate work of a first-rate historian."—James D. Tabor, Journal of Religion "Fredriksen confronts her documents—principally the writings of the New Testament—as an archaeologist would an especially rich complex site. With great care she distinguishes the literary images from historical fact. As she does so, she explains the images of Jesus in terms of the strategies and purposes of the writers Paul, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John."—Thomas D’Evelyn, Christian Science Monitor

Author : Ben Witherington (III)
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1991-05-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0521407893

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Women in the Earliest Churches by Ben Witherington (III) Pdf

This book examines the roles and functions that women assumed in the early Christian communities from AD 33 to the Council of Nicaea. It surveys, too, the views about women held by various New Testament authors including Paul and the Evangelists.

Author : Kevin Madigan,Carolyn Osiek
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2005-07-27
Category : History
ISBN : 0801879329

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Ordained Women in the Early Church by Kevin Madigan,Carolyn Osiek Pdf

Madigan and Osiek assemble relevant material from both Western and Eastern Christendom.--Robin Jensen, Vanderbilt University Divinity School, author of Face to Face: The Portrait of the Divine in Early Christianity "Catholic Historical Review"

Author : Ally Kateusz
Publisher : Springer
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783030111113

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Mary and Early Christian Women by Ally Kateusz Pdf

This book is open access under a CC BY-NC-ND license. This book reveals exciting early Christian evidence that Mary was remembered as a powerful role model for women leaders—women apostles, baptizers, and presiders at the ritual meal. Early Christian art portrays Mary and other women clergy serving as deacon, presbyter/priest, and bishop. In addition, the two oldest surviving artifacts to depict people at an altar table inside a real church depict women and men in a gender-parallel liturgy inside two of the most important churches in Christendom—Old Saint Peter’s Basilica in Rome and the second Hagia Sophia in Constantinople. Dr. Kateusz’s research brings to light centuries of censorship, both ancient and modern, and debunks the modern imagination that from the beginning only men were apostles and clergy.

Author : Ute E. Eisen
Publisher : Liturgical Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0814659500

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Women Officeholders in Early Christianity by Ute E. Eisen Pdf

Here Ute E. Eisen provides a scholarly investigation of the evidence that women held offices of authority in the first centuries of Christianity. Topics include apostles, prophets, theological teachers, presbyters, enrolled widows, deacons, bishops, and oikonomae. The book concludes with a chapter on "source-oriented perspectives for a history of Christian women in official positions."

Author : Elizabeth A. Clark
Publisher : Liturgical Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780814683552

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Women in the Early Church by Elizabeth A. Clark Pdf

Elizabeth Clark, a patristic scholar and founder of the Department of Religion at Mary Washington College, has drawn upon her depth of scholarship and linguistic ability to make available to an educated but nonspecialized readership an intriguing mosaic of opinions." - America "

Author : Patricia Cox Miller
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813214177

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Women in Early Christianity by Patricia Cox Miller Pdf

What emerges from these texts is a colorful portrayal of the many faces of ancient Christian women in their roles as teachers, prophets, martyrs, widows, deaconesses, ascetics, virgins, wives, and mothers.

Author : Christine Schenk
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781506411897

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Crispina and Her Sisters by Christine Schenk Pdf

Cripina and Her Sisters explores visual imagery found on burial artifacts of prominent early Christian women. It carefully situates the tomb art within the cultural context of customary Roman commemorations of the dead and provides an in-depth review of women‘s history in the first four centuries of Christianity. From this, a fascinating picture emerges of women‘s authority in the early church--a picture either not readily available or recognized, or even sadly distorted in the written history.

Author : Hermas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Christian literature, Early
ISBN : UOM:39015011435503

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The Shepherd of Hermas by Hermas Pdf

Author : Holly Beers
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830849895

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A Week In the Life of a Greco-Roman Woman by Holly Beers Pdf

In first-century Ephesus, life is not easy for women. A young wife meets her daily struggles with equanimity and courage. She holds poverty and hunger at bay, fights to keep her child healthy and strong, and navigates the unpredictability of her husband's temperament. But into the midst of her daily fears and worries, a new hope appears: a teaching that challenges her society's most basic assumption. What is this new teaching? And what will it demand of her? In this gripping novel, Holly Beers introduces us to the first-century setting where the apostle Paul first proclaimed the gospel. Illuminated by historical images and explanatory sidebars, this lively story not only shows us the rich tapestry of life in a thriving Greco-Roman city, it also foregrounds the interior life of one courageous woman—and the radical new freedom the gospel promised her.

Author : Lynn H. Cohick,Amy Brown Hughes
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781493410217

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Christian Women in the Patristic World by Lynn H. Cohick,Amy Brown Hughes Pdf

From facing wild beasts in the arena to governing the Roman Empire, Christian women--as preachers and philosophers, martyrs and empresses, virgins and mothers--influenced the shape of the church in its formative centuries. This book provides in a single volume a nearly complete compendium of extant evidence about Christian women in the second through fifth centuries. It highlights the social and theological contributions they made to shaping early Christian beliefs and practices, integrating their influence into the history of the patristic church and showing how their achievements can be edifying for contemporary Christians.

Author : Mike Aquilina,Christopher Bailey
Publisher : Our Sunday Visitor
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Women in Christianity
ISBN : 161278562X

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Mothers of the Church by Mike Aquilina,Christopher Bailey Pdf

Mothers of the Church: The Witness of Early Christian Women will reinforce Catholics understanding of the part played by women in the early Church. Drawing upon a wide spectrum of sources, it illustrates the many kinds of women that left their mark on sacred history by responding to God s call. Whether they were martyrs, abbesses, mothers, desert solitaries, or managers of large family businesses, these women s stories will encourage you and deepen your faith. Each chapter features a concise biography that is supplemented by quotes from the Fathers writings concerning the woman in question, poetry concerning her, and other ancient testimonials. The Mothers of the Church include: Holy Women of the New Testament --St. Blandina --St. Perpetua and St. Felicity --St. Helena --St. Thecla --St. Agnes of Rome --St. Macrina --Proba the Widow --St. Marcella --St. Paula --St. Eustochium --St. Monica --Egeria the Tourist

Author : Karen J. Torjesen
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1995-04-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780060686611

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When Women Were Priests by Karen J. Torjesen Pdf

This landmark book reveals not only that women were priests, bishops, and prophets in early Christianity, but also how and why they were then suppressed.

Author : Margaret Y. MacDonald
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1996-10-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0521567289

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Early Christian Women and Pagan Opinion by Margaret Y. MacDonald Pdf

This is a study of how women figured in public reaction to the church from New Testament times to Christianity's encounter with the pagan critics of the second century CE. The reference to a hysterical woman was made by the most prolific critic of Christianity, Celsus. He was referring to a follower of Jesus - probably Mary Magdalene - who was at the centre of efforts to create and promote belief in the resurrection. MacDonald draws attention to the conviction, emerging from the works of several pagan authors, that female initiative was central to Christianity's development; she sets out to explore the relationship between this and the common Greco-Roman belief that women were inclined towards excesses in religion. The findings of cultural anthropologists of Mediterranean societies are examined in an effort to probe the societal values that shaped public opinion and early church teaching. Concerns expressed in New Testament and early Christian texts about the respectability of women, and even generally about their behaviour, are seen in a new light when one appreciates that outsiders focused on early church women and understood their activities as a reflection of the group as a whole.