Corinth: The First City of Greece

Corinth: The First City of Greece
Author: Richard M. Rothaus
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 183
Release: 2015-08-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004301496

This book addresses cult and religion in the city of Corinth from the 4th to 7th centuries of our era. The work incorporates and synthesizes all available evidence, literary, archaeological and other. The interaction and conflict between Christian and non-Christian activity is placed into its urban context and seen as simultaneously existing and overlapping cultural activity. Late antique religion is defined as cult-based rather than doctrinally-based, and thus this volume focuses not on what people believed, but rather what they did. An emphasis on cult activity reveals a variety of types of interaction between groups, ranging from confrontational events at dilapidated polytheist cult sites, to full polysemous and shared cult activity at the so-called "Fountain of the Lamps". Non-Christian traditions are shown to have been recognized and viable through the sixth century. The tentative conclusion is drawn that a clear definition of "pagan" and "Christian" begins at an urban level with the Christian re-monumentalization of Corinth with basilicas. The disappearance of "pagan" cult is best attributed to the development of a new city socially and physically based in Christianity, rather than any purely "religious" development.

Philo and Paul Among the Sophists

Philo and Paul Among the Sophists
Author: Bruce W. Winter
Publisher: CUP Archive
Total Pages: 328
Release: 1997-08-28
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780521591089

A study of Philo and Paul and the first-century sophistic movement.

Seek the Welfare of the City

Seek the Welfare of the City
Author: Bruce W. Winter
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 264
Release: 1994
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780802840912

In this book, Bruce W. Winter maps out the role and obligations of Christians as benefactors and citizens in their society. Winter's scholarly insight is enhanced through the selective use of important ancient literary and nonliterary sources. Contrary to the popular perception that early Christians withdrew from society and sought to maintain a low profile, this outstanding study explores the complexities of the positive commitments made by Christians in Gentile regions of the Roman empire.

Roman Wives, Roman Widows

Roman Wives, Roman Widows
Author: Bruce W. Winter
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2003
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780802849717

During the late Republic and early Empire, the new woman' made her appearance. This was a wife or widow of means who took part in life outside the walls of her house, including wider society, business and extra-marital affairs.

1 Corinthians

1 Corinthians
Author: Anthony C. Thiselton
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 342
Release: 2011-05-03
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0802840361

Anthony Thiselton's lengthy New International Greek Testament Commentary volume The First Epistle to the Corinthians (2000) has become a standard work on 1 Corinthians. In this "shorter" commentary Thiselton draws on his excellent exegesis from that volume but combines it afresh with keen practical and pastoral application for readers at all levels. Thiselton delves deeply into the context and text of Paul's first Corinthian letter as he suggests, section by section, how the book applies to pastoral and practical issues. He draws vivid parallels between the growing church in Corinth and the twenty-first-century church, demonstrating that today's church also faces a seductive culture of competition and consumerism. The church in Corinth preferred its self-centered theology to the Christ-centered gospel of the wider apostolic church. Paul's response in 1 Corinthians, amplified by Thiselton's commentary, becomes a living, practical, transforming word from God for Christians today.

Divine Honours for the Caesars

Divine Honours for the Caesars
Author: Bruce W. Winter
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2015
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0802872573

In this book Bruce Winter explores the varied responses of the first Christians to requirements to render divine honors to the Caesars as the conventional public expression of loyalty to Rome and its rulers. How did they cope with the culture of emperor worship when they were required to give their undivided loyalty to Jesus? First examining the significant primary evidence of emperor worship and the enormous societal pressure the first Christians would have faced to participate in it, Winter then looks at specific New Testament evidence in light of his findings. He examines individual cities and provinces and the different ways in which Christians responded to the pressure to fulfill their obligations as citizens and participate in the conventional expressions of loyalty to the Roman Empire.

Demeter and Persephone in Ancient Corinth

Demeter and Persephone in Ancient Corinth
Author: Nancy Bookidis
Publisher: ASCSA
Total Pages: 36
Release: 1987
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780876616710

When the Roman tourist Pausanias visited Corinth around A.D. 160, he saw many shrines and buildings high up to the south of the city, on the slopes of Acrocorinth. This booklet describes excavations at one of these, the Sanctuary of Demeter and Persephone (Kore). The details of religious rites revealed are of particular interest since the cult of the two goddesses, also celebrated at Eleusis, is one of the most mysterious in antiquity, and no literary testimony exists to explain what may have happened behind the high walls. Terracotta dolls, ritual meals of pork, and miniature models of food-filled platters hint at a vigorous religious tradition associated with human and agricultural fertility.