The last decade of Christianity Studies has witnessed a revolution in Late Antiquity scholarship. The very popularity of "Late Antiquity" says something about the current intellectual climate in which these studies arise: a shift from a primary emphasis on Christianity itself to the larger cultural setting of which it was a part, a shift from doctrinal studies to the church as a social institution, and a shift from concern for orthodoxy to the popular religious attitudes and expressions. While the chronological scope is the same the first six centuries of the common era this new collection of scholarly essays supplements Studies in Early Christianity: A Collection of Scholarly Essays , an eighteen-volume set of classic articles published by Garland in 1993. The present set of six volumes supplements the first series by selecting articles written during the last decade. The arrangement once more is topical but with a detailed analysis and coverage of topics. This new collection of essays will serve as an important supplement to the first series; and alone this six volume set provides the perfect introduction to key areas of research and debate on the early history of Chr
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When in 1851 the black abolitionist Sojourner Truth turned her rhetorical fire against a Protestant clergyman who had ridiculed the campaign for women's suffrage on the grounds that females were helpless and weak, she was not (we may assume) impelled by the debates over "essentialism" that have unsettled feminist theory for the past decade and more. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
virginal interpretation, corporate manumission, higher continence, partum virginity, bono coniugali, iustum matrimonium, sancta virginitate, ciuitate dei, slave recruitment, archeologia cristiana, virginal ideal, common chest, marriage ideology, officiis ministrorum, literal commentary, deep grammar, ascetical theology, ascetic piety, senatorial aristocracy, virginal conception, virgin widow, perpetual virginity Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, John Chrysostom, New Testament, Peter Brown, City of God, Clement of Alexandria, Song of Songs, Gospel of Thomas, Cambridge University Press, Nag Hammadi, Saint Augustine, Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, Augustinian Studies, Harvard University Press, Journal of Early Christian Studies, Julian of Eclanum, Elizabeth Clark, Van Bavel, Old Testament, Ignatius of Antioch, Roman Egypt, Septimius Severus, Ancient Rome, Asia Minor New!
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