Did Christianity transform the Roman world in which it began, or did the Roman world shape Christianity? This work explores current debates and new interpretations of Early Christianity in Roman Society. Adopting an interdisciplinary and thematic approach, it offers the student unfamiliar with the Christian tradition, a comprehensive introduction to its role in the Roman world.
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"This book is a welcome contribution to recent efforts at creating a dialogue between Greco-Roman and patristic studies, to the mutual benefit of both...an impressive command of teh rapidly changing scholarship of late antiquity and its bearing on the first five centuries of Christianity." - Will Deming, University of Portland
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Did Christianity transform the Roman world in which it began, or did the Roman world shape Christianity? This work explores current debates and new interpretations on Early Christianity in Roman Society. Adopting an interdisciplinary and thematic approach it offers the student unfamiliar with the Christian tradition, a comphrensive introduction to its role in the Roman world. Topics examined include paganism and heresy; martyrdom and relics; rejection of gender-roles and social structures; preaching as educational outreach; church and state; just war and non-violence and secular society and cultural identity.
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This review is from: Christianity and Roman Society (Key Themes in Ancient History) (Paperback)
Gillian Clark has written an excellent book. It is highly readable and will be of interest to those seeking to get to the bottom of essential religious debates which occurred in the early centuries AD. The book also transports the reaer very much into th epsychology of the period, with its intensive treatment of such difficult phenomena as martyrdom and asceticism.
Clark is an unpretentious prose writer and does her best to simplify advanced discussion with pithiness. This is an effective strategy and enhances the readability of the book. For anyone seriously interested in ingesting alot of importnat material quickly, this is the place to go: a top class ancient historian is the guide and she provides ample referencing to enable further enquiry. Clark, though, is not afraid to write provocatively: her thinly veiled criticism of Ramsay Macmullen at one point is interesting. If you can't see youorself lasting the course of the epic Chadwick/Frend contributions on the early church, this is a very viable alternative staring place and is more user friendly to boot.
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Chadwick's Early Church is still recommended, but Clark's book is a fantastic companion to get a quick, organized, detailed and accurate understanding of the position of Christians, in all their variety, in Roman society.
She underscores all of the main issues relating to the trainistion from Jew to Christian in the sense of societal perception, heretics, gnostics, pagans, etc. All top notch and very up to date bibliography, which is great for further study. She has a few minor erros in dating, and glosses over some of the nuances of Jewish monotheism, sacrifice and conversion, but this is now, in my view, one of the best books to get on the subject. And its slim size adds attraction to students who are assigned 14 books for a semester in one class!
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How did a tiny, politically suspect, religious splinter group become the dominant religion of the Roman world? Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
elective cults, lesser divine beings, philosophic life, religious options, late antiquity Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Testament, John Chrysostom, Jesus Christ, Asia Minor, Apollonius of Tyana, Lane Fox, Paul of Tarsus, Evans Grubbs, Jesus of Nazareth, Peter Brown, Praising the Saints, The Passio Perpetuae New!
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- Basil of Caesarea (Transformation of the Classical Heritage) by Philip Rousseau on page 82, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Late Antiquity by Peter Brown in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Paulinus of Nola: Life, Letters, and Poems (Transformation of the Classical Heritage) by Dennis E. Trout on page 104, page 114, and Back Matter
- Pagans and Christians in Late Antiquity: A Sourcebook (Routledge Sourcebooks for the Ancient World) by A.D.(Doug) Lee in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Divine Institutes (Fathers of the Church Series Vol 49) (Bks. 1-7) by Lactantius on page 51, and Back Matter
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- The Lost Apostle: Searching for the Truth About Junia by Rena Pederson in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Christianization and Communication in Late Antiquity: John Chrysostom and his Congregation in Antioch by Jaclyn L. Maxwell in Back Matter
- Christian Persecution, Martyrdom, and Orthodoxy by the late Geoffrey de Ste. Croix on page 358
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