Subversive meals : an analysis of the Lord's Supper under Roman domination during the first century /

Subversive Meals examines the Lord's Supper within the sociopolitical context of first-century Roman domination, and concludes that it was an anti-imperial praxis. Although the Christian communal meal looked much like a typical Roman banquet in structure, with a deipnon and a symposion, it was...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Streett, R. Alan (Richard Alan) (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom : James Clarke & Co., 2016.
Subjects:
30-600
Lord's Supper > History > Early church, ca. 30-600.
Sacred meals > Rome > Comparative studies.
Emperor worship > Rome.
Religion and politics > Rome > History.
Eucharistie > Histoire > ca 30-600 (Église primitive)
Repas sacrés > Rome > Études comparatives.
Culte impérial > Rome.
Religion et politique > Rome > Histoire.
RELIGION > Christian Theology > Soteriology.
Emperor worship
Lord's Supper > Early church
Religion and politics
Sacred meals
Rome (Empire)
Comparative studies
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The Roman banquet as a model for the Lord's Supper
  • The Passover as an anti-imperial activity
  • The Jesus movement in its first-century CE context
  • Jesus' Lukan meals as a venue to proclaim his anti-imperial gospel of the kingdom
  • The Last Supper as an anti-imperial banquet
  • The anti-imperial nature of Christian meals
  • Prophecy as an anti-imperial meal activity.

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