The Moral World of the First Christians
Title | The Moral World of the First Christians PDF eBook |
Author | Wayne A. Meeks |
Publisher | Westminster John Knox Press |
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
The Social World of the First Christians
Title | The Social World of the First Christians PDF eBook |
Author | Wayne A. Meeks |
Publisher | Augsburg Fortress Publishing |
Pages | 456 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Religion |
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F. Hock -- Paul's thorn and cultural models of affliction / Susan R. Garrett -- Light on Paul from the Testaments of the twelve patriarchs? / M. de Jonge -- God's new family in Thessalonica / Abraham J. Malherbe -- Parents and children in the letters of Paul / O. Larry Yarbrough -- Matthew and the spirit / Leander E. Keck -- The problem of perjury in Greek context : prolegomena to an exegesis of Matthew 5:33; 1 Timothy 1:10; and Didache 2.3 / John T. Fitzgerald -- The social world of James : literary analysis and historical reconstruction / Luke Timothy Johnson -- The footwashing in John 13:6-11 : transformation ritual or ceremony? / Jerome H. Neyrey -- Rich and poor, proud and humble in Luke-Acts / David L. Balch -- Visualizing the "real" world of Acts 16: toward construction of a social index / L. Michael.
Moral Exhortation
Title | Moral Exhortation PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Westminster John Knox Press |
Pages | 184 |
Release | 1986-01-01 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9780664250164 |
Translated selections of writings on ethics by Arius Didymus, Cicero, Crates, Demetrius of Phalerum, Dio Chrysostom, Diogenes, Diogenes Laertius, Epictetus, Epicurus, Hierocles, Horace, Isocrates, Julian, Lucian of Samosata, Maximus of Tyre, Melissa, Musonius Rufus, Pliny the Younger, Plutarch, Seneca, Sextus Empiricus, and Theano, and from the Gnomologium Vaticanum, Oxyrhynchus Papyrus, and Pythagorean Sentences.
Women in the World of the Earliest Christians
Title | Women in the World of the Earliest Christians PDF eBook |
Author | Lynn Cohick |
Publisher | Baker Academic |
Pages | 352 |
Release | 2009-11-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1441207996 |
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.
Christian Ethics: A Very Short Introduction
Title | Christian Ethics: A Very Short Introduction PDF eBook |
Author | D. Stephen Long |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 153 |
Release | 2010-07-29 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0199568863 |
This book provides both a short history of Christian ethics and looks at itsbasic sources as they arise from Judaism, Greco-Roman ethics, andChristianity
The Origins of Christian Morality
Title | The Origins of Christian Morality PDF eBook |
Author | Wayne A. Meeks |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 294 |
Release | 1993-01-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780300065138 |
By the time Christianity became a political and cultural force in the Roman Empire, it had come to embody a new moral vision. This wise and eloquent book describes the formative years--from the crucifixion of Jesus to the end of the second century of the common era--when Christian beliefs and practices shaped their unique moral order. Wayne A. Meeks examines the surviving documents from Christianity's beginnings (some of which became the New Testament) and shows that they are largely concerned with the way converts to the movement should behave. Meeks finds that for these Christians, the formation of morals means the formation of community; the documents are addressed not to individuals but to groups, and they have among their primary aims the maintenance and growth of these groups. Meeks paints a picture of the process of socialization that produced the early forms of Christian morality, discussing many factors that made the Christians feel that they were a single and "chosen" people. He describes, for example, the impact of conversion; the rapid spread of Christian household cult-associations in the cities of the Roman Empire; the language of Christian moral discourse as revealed in letters, testaments, and "moral stories"; the rituals, meetings, and institutionalization of charity; the Christians' feelings about celibacy, sex, and gender roles; and their sense of the end-time and final judgment. In each of these areas Meeks seeks to determine what is distinctive about the Christian viewpoint and what is similar to the moral components of Greco-Roman or Jewish thought.
The Religion of the First Christians
Title | The Religion of the First Christians PDF eBook |
Author | Frederick James Gould |
Publisher | |
Pages | 152 |
Release | 1901 |
Genre | Christianity |
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