Constructing Early Christian Families
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Constructing Early Christian Families
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Author : Halvor Moxnes
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2002-06
Constructing Early Christian Families written by Halvor Moxnes and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-06 with History categories.
Constructing Early Christian Families explores the complex picture of family relations and the manifold attitudes to the family in the early Christian world.
The Power Of Children
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Author : Margaret Y. MacDonald
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
The Power Of Children written by Margaret Y. MacDonald and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Children categories.
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.
Fabrics Of Discourse
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Author : Vernon Kay Robbins
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2003-11-15
Fabrics Of Discourse written by Vernon Kay Robbins and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-11-15 with Religion categories.
Honors the great range and penetrating insights of Vernon Robbins' work.
Family In The Bible
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Author : Richard S. Hess
language : en
Publisher: Baker Books
Release Date : 2003-10-01
Family In The Bible written by Richard S. Hess and has been published by Baker Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-10-01 with Religion categories.
What does the Bible say about the importance of the family? How can we apply these ancient perspectives to modern Christian life? The essays gathered in this volume provide reflections from leading biblical scholars. The authors focus on reading the Scriptures from the perspective of the authors in ancient Israelite society and the surrounding cultures. They find there an overarching sense of the central role the family played in the larger social structure. However different our contemporary culture might be, these reflections can form the basis of an evangelical vision of the family informed by a biblical worldview.
Making Christians
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Author : Denise Kimber Buell
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2020-11-10
Making Christians written by Denise Kimber Buell and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-10 with Religion categories.
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
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Author : Teresa Berger
language : en
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Release Date : 2011
Gender Differences And The Making Of Liturgical History written by Teresa Berger and has been published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Religion categories.
Mapping uncharted territory in the study of liturgy's past, this book offers a history to contemporary questions around gender and liturgical life. 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. Drawing on historical case studies, Berger explores traditional fundamentals such as liturgical space and eucharistic practice and new ways of studying the past.
The Educated Elite In 1 Corinthians
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Author : Robert Dutch
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2005-06-20
The Educated Elite In 1 Corinthians written by Robert Dutch and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-06-20 with Religion categories.
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.
Building Christian Families
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Author : Mitch Finley
language : en
Publisher: Thomas More Association
Release Date : 1996
Building Christian Families written by Mitch Finley and has been published by Thomas More Association this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Family & Relationships categories.
Hope and guidance for families seeking the stability of tradition while accepting the challenges all families face at the dawn of the twenty-first century.
Family Matters
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Author : Trevor Burke
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2003-10-01
Family Matters written by Trevor Burke and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-10-01 with Religion categories.
Paul's first letter to the Thessalonians boasts a preponderance of fictive kinship terms (e.g. father, children, nursing mother, brother etc). In this book, Burke shows that Paul is drawing on the normal social expectations of family members in antiquity to regulate the affairs of the community. Family metaphors would have resonated immediately with Paul's readers and the author surveys a broad range of ancient texts to identify stock meanings of the father-child and brother-brother relations. These stereotypical attitudes are explored to understand Paul's paternal relations (2:10-12) with his Thessalonian children and in resolving sexual immorality (4:3-8) and the refusal by some brothers to work (4:9-12; 5:12-15). This study has implications for the structure of early Christian communities.
Entering God S Kingdom Not Like A Little Child
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Author : Eunyung Lim
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2021-09-07
Entering God S Kingdom Not Like A Little Child written by Eunyung Lim and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-07 with Religion categories.
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.