The Urban World And The First Christians
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Author | : Steve Walton |
Publisher | : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 2017-09-18 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1467449032 |
In the tradition of The First Urban Christians by Wayne Meeks, this book explores the relationship between the earliest Christians and the city environment. Experts in classics, early Christianity, and human geography analyze the growth, development, and self-understanding of the early Christian movement in urban settings. The book's contributors first look at how the urban physical, cultural, and social environments of the ancient Mediterranean basin affected the ways in which early Christianity progressed. They then turn to how the earliest Christians thought and theologized in their engagement with cities. With a rich variety of expertise and scholarship, The Urban World and the First Christians is an important contribution to the understanding of early Christianity.
Author | : Wayne A. Meeks |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 2003-01-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780300098617 |
Meeks analyzes the letters of Paul to see what kind of people joined the Christian groups in the urban centers and what it was like to be a Christian then.
Author | : Thomas A. Robinson |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2016-11-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0190620560 |
It has been widely assumed that there were 6 million Christians (or 10% of the population of the Roman Empire) by around the year 300. The largely-unexamined consensus view is also that Christianity was an urban movement until the conversion of Emperor Constantine. On close examination, it appears that these two popular views would nearly saturate every urban area of the entire Roman Empire with Christians, leaving no room for Jews or pagans. In Who Were the First Christians?, Thomas Robinson shows that scenario simply does not work. But where does the solution lie? Were there many fewer Christians in the Roman world than we have thought? Was the Roman world much more urbanized? Or, is the urban thesis defective, so that the neglected countryside must now be considered in any reconstruction of early Christian growth? Further, what was the makeup of the typical Christian congregation? Was it a lower-class movement? Or was it a movement of the upwardly mobile middle-class? Arguing that more attention needs to be given to the countryside and to the considerable contingent of the marginal and the rustic within urban populations, this revisionist work argues persuasively that the urban thesis should be dismantled or profoundly revised and the growth and the complexion of the early Christian movement seen in a substantially different light.
Author | : Steve Walton |
Publisher | : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0802874517 |
In the tradition of The First Urban Christians by Wayne Meeks, this book explores the relationship between the earliest Christians and the city environment. Experts in classics, early Christianity, and human geography analyze the growth, development, and self-understanding of the early Christian movement in urban settings. The book's contributors first look at how the urban physical, cultural, and social environments of the ancient Mediterranean basin affected the ways in which early Christianity progressed. They then turn to how the earliest Christians thought and theologized in their engagement with cities. With a rich variety of expertise and scholarship, The Urban World and the First Christians is an important contribution to the understanding of early Christianity.
Author | : Steve Walton |
Publisher | : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 2017-09-18 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1467449059 |
In the tradition of The First Urban Christians by Wayne Meeks, this book explores the relationship between the earliest Christians and the city environment. Experts in classics, early Christianity, and human geography analyze the growth, development, and self-understanding of the early Christian movement in urban settings. The book's contributors first look at how the urban physical, cultural, and social environments of the ancient Mediterranean basin affected the ways in which early Christianity progressed. They then turn to how the earliest Christians thought and theologized in their engagement with cities. With a rich variety of expertise and scholarship, The Urban World and the First Christians is an important contribution to the understanding of early Christianity.
Author | : Philip F. Esler |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2002-11-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1134833814 |
First published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author | : James R. Harrison |
Publisher | : SBL Press |
Total Pages | : 361 |
Release | : 2015-09-29 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1628371048 |
A fresh look at early urban churches This collection of essays examines the urban context of early Christian churches in the first-century Roman world. A city-by-city investigation of the early churches in the New Testament clarifies the challenges, threats, and opportunities that urban living provided for early Christians. Readers will come away with a better understanding of how scholars assemble an accurate picture of the cities in which the first Christians flourished. Features: Analysis of urban evidence of the inscriptions, papyri, archaeological remains, coins, and iconography Discussion of how to use different types of evidence responsibly Outline of what constitutes proper methodological use for establishing a nuanced, informed portrait of ancient urban life
Author | : Wayne A. Meeks |
Publisher | : Westminster John Knox Press |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 1986-01-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780664250140 |
Describes the social setting of the early Christians, looks at the Greek and Roman ethical traditions, and explains the moral formation of the beginning Christian movement
Author | : Marc Olson |
Publisher | : Augsburg Fortress Publishers |
Total Pages | : 65 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1506460496 |
The life and teachings of Jesus changed the world forever--but what happened after the events of the Gospels? How did Christianity grow from a small group of followers to one of the largest religious movements in human history? How did the first Christians survive in an oppressive Roman Empire? What did the early church believe, and how did they worship? The World of the First Christians: A Curious Kid's Guide to the Early Church answers these questions and more, with colorful illustrations, charts, graphs, maps, and other infographics that will keep kids' attention for hours and give them new insight and understanding into the early growth of the Christian faith. Curious Kids' Guides present cool and surprising information about Christian history and beliefs in an entertaining, visually engaging way for kids.
Author | : James R. Harrison |
Publisher | : SBL Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2019-11-23 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781628372618 |
A fresh examination of early Christianity by an international team of New Testament and classical scholars Volume 5 of The First Urban Churches investigates the urban context of Christian churches in first-century Roman Colossae, Hierapolis, and Laodicea. Building on the methodologies introduced in the first volume and supplementing the in-depth studies of Corinth, Ephesus, and Philippi (vols. 2-4), essays in this volume challenge readers to reexamine preconceived understandings of the early church and to grapple with the meaning and context of Christianity in its first-century Roman colonial context. Features: Analysis of urban evidence found in inscriptions, papyri, archaeological remains, coins, and iconography Proposed reconstructions of the past and its social, religious, and political significance A nuanced, informed portrait of ancient urban life in the cities of the Lycus Valley