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Sacred scripture and secular struggles /
Twelve leading scholars have collaborated on this unique volume, bringing their biblical and patristic expertise together to show how the first followers of Jesus used their own canonical scriptures to address concerns central to life in the Roman Empire. This book offers an overview of how early Ch...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Boston :
Brill,
2015.
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| Colección: | Bible in ancient Christianity ;
v. 9. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Section 1: the canonical beginnings. The fragmentation and inversion of empire in the Christian Apocryphal Acts / Nicole Kelley
- "Sic est voluntas Dei" : Latin patristic views on 1 Peter 2:13-17 / Jonathan P. Yates
- Power and tradition in Apostolic Constitutions 7 / Clayton N. Jefford
- Section 2: 2nd and 3rd century developments.
- Tertullian and military service: the scriptural arguments in De corona / Geoffrey D. Dunn
- Irenaeus and the kingdoms of the world / D. Jeffrey Bingham
- The weak God of the Gospels : mercy, mysticism, and martyrdom in Origen's Contra celsum / Roberto J. de la Noval
- Section 3: Scripture in the service of Urban Unity.
- Diodore on the politics of kingship in Psalm 2 / Benjamin D. Wayman
- Justus sibi lex est : the Donatist interpretation of the law in Romans 2:14 / Alden Lee Bass
- Should a Christian sell everything? : Early interpretations of the rich young man / Stephen M. Hildebrand
- Section 4: Augustine's legacy.
- Abraham, Samson, and 'certain holy women" : suicide and exemplarity in Augustine's De ciuitate de 1.26 / Melanie Web
- From slave to friend : John 15, Philemon, and Slavery in Augustine / Joseph E. Capizzi
- From Ordo to Potestas : Romans 13 and Saint Augustine's chastened civil confidence / David Vincent Meconi.