Early Christian Women
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Mary And Early Christian Women
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Author : Ally Kateusz
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2019-02-18
Mary And Early Christian Women written by Ally Kateusz and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-18 with Religion categories.
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.
The Bone Gatherers
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Author : Nicola Denzey
language : en
Publisher: Beacon Press
Release Date : 2007-07-01
The Bone Gatherers written by Nicola Denzey and has been published by Beacon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-07-01 with Religion categories.
The bone gatherers found in the annals and legends of the early Roman Catholic Church were women who collected the bodies of martyred saints to give them a proper burial. They have come down to us as deeply resonant symbols of grief: from the women who anointed Jesus's crucified body in the gospels to the Pietà, we are accustomed to thinking of women as natural mourners, caring for the body in all its fragility and expressing our deepest sorrow. But to think of women bone gatherers merely as mourners of the dead is to limit their capacity to stand for something more significant. In fact, Denzey argues that the bone gatherers are the mythic counterparts of historical women of substance and means-women who, like their pagan sisters, devoted their lives and financial resources to the things that mattered most to them: their families, their marriages, and their religion. We find their sometimes splendid burial chambers in the catacombs of Rome, but until Denzey began her research for The Bone Gatherers, the monuments left to memorialize these women and their contributions to the Church went largely unexamined. The Bone Gatherers introduces us to once-powerful women who had, until recently, been lost to history—from the sorrowing mothers and ghastly brides of pagan Rome to the child martyrs and women sponsors who shaped early Christianity. It was often only in death that ancient women became visible—through the buildings, burial sites, and art constructed in their memory—and Denzey uses this archaeological evidence, along with ancient texts, to resurrect the lives of several fourth-century women. Surprisingly, she finds that representations of aristocratic Roman Christian women show a shift in the value and significance of womanhood over the fourth century: once esteemed as powerful leaders or patrons, women came to be revered (in an increasingly male-dominated church) only as virgins or martyrs—figureheads for sexual purity. These depictions belie a power struggle between the sexes within early Christianity, waged via the Church's creation and manipulation of collective memory and subtly shifting perceptions of women and femaleness in the process of Christianization. The Bone Gatherers is at once a primer on how to "read" ancient art and the story of a struggle that has had long-lasting implications for the role of women in the Church. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Women In The World Of The Earliest Christians
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Author : Lynn Cohick
language : en
Publisher: Baker Academic
Release Date : 2009-11-01
Women In The World Of The Earliest Christians written by Lynn Cohick and has been published by Baker Academic this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-11-01 with Religion categories.
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.
The Witness Of Early Christian Women
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Author : Mike Aquilina
language : en
Publisher: Our Sunday Visitor
Release Date : 2014-04-22
The Witness Of Early Christian Women written by Mike Aquilina and has been published by Our Sunday Visitor this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-22 with Religion categories.
Meet the heroines of Christianity's formative years! The Witness of Early Christian Women: Mothers of the Church demonstrates the radical nature of Christianity's understanding of women and their roles, especially in a pagan society that viewed them as little more than property. The variety of women here is striking: poor widows, consecrated virgins, heroic martyrs, but also businesswomen, the wealthy, and an indomitable traveler on a world tour. Each chapter features a concise biography accompanied by writings from the early Church about the woman in question. 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 Explore the impact of each of these women on the Church, then and now. Their stories will enthrall you. Their writings will inspire you. Their witness will empower you.
Women And Knowledge In Early Christianity
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Author : Ulla Tervahauta
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2017-10-17
Women And Knowledge In Early Christianity written by Ulla Tervahauta and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-17 with Religion categories.
Women and Knowledge in Early Christianity offers a collection of essays that deal with perceptions of wisdom, femaleness, and their interconnections in a wide range of ancient sources, including papyri, Nag Hammadi documents, heresiological accounts and monastic literature.
Patterns Of Women S Leadership In Early Christianity
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Author : Joan E. Taylor
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2021-02-18
Patterns Of Women S Leadership In Early Christianity written by Joan E. Taylor and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-18 with Religion categories.
This authoritative collection brings together the latest thinking on women's leadership in early Christianity. Featuring contributors from key thinkers in the fields of Christian history, it considers the evidence for ways in which women exercised leadership in churches from the 1st to the 9th centuries CE.
Women And Christian Origins
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Author : Ross Shepard Kraemer
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1999-02-11
Women And Christian Origins written by Ross Shepard Kraemer and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-02-11 with Religion categories.
This new collection of fourteen integrated, original essays by prominent scholars and experienced teachers provides a comprehensive and accessible entree to current research on women and the origins of Christianity. Engaging for both the interested reader and the specialist in religion, Women and Christian Origins is sensitive to feminist theory and attentive to distinctions between the (re)construction of women's history in early Christian churches and ancient constructions of gender difference
Early Christian Women And Pagan Opinion
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Author : Margaret Y. MacDonald
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1996-10-03
Early Christian Women And Pagan Opinion written by Margaret Y. MacDonald and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-10-03 with History categories.
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.
Women In Early Christianity
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Author : David M. Scholer
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 1993
Women In Early Christianity written by David M. Scholer and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Women in Christianity categories.
First Published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
From Their Lips
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Author : Vk McCarty
language : en
Publisher: Gorgias Press
Release Date : 2021
From Their Lips written by Vk McCarty and has been published by Gorgias Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with Christian literature, Early categories.
The Eastern Church venerates among its saints several Early Christian women whose teaching and wisdom contribute to the depth of our theological heritage. Their inspired voices can be heard at work witnessing: in the New Testament, in the early centuries of the Church Fathers and throughout the Byzantine era. Readers will find this volume bringing female leaders from the Early Church to life from the traditional ancient sources and sharing their experience of the presence of God. Their remembered advice to followers still illuminates issues of faith and justice which bind us together as Christians today.