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Food, Virtue, and the Shaping of Early Christianity

Author : Dana Robinson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108802095
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Food, Virtue, and the Shaping of Early Christianity written by Dana Robinson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-08-13 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Dana Robinson examines the role that food played in the Christianization of daily life in the fourth century CE. Early Christians used the food culture of the Hellenized Mediterranean world to create and debate compelling models of Christian virtue, and to project Christian ideology onto common domestic practices. Combining theoretical approaches from cognitive linguistics and space/place theory, Robinson shows how metaphors for piety, such as health, fruit, and sacrifice, relied on food-related domains of common knowledge (medicine, agriculture, votive ritual), which in turn generated sophisticated and accessible models of lay discipline and moral formation. She also demonstrates that Christian places and landscapes of piety were socially constructed through meals and food production networks that extended far beyond the Eucharist. Food culture, thus, provided a network of metaphorical concepts and spatial practices that allowed the lay faithful to participate in important debates over Christian living and community formation.

Disability, Medicine, and Healing Discourse in Early Christianity

Author : Susan R. Holman
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000922944
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Disability, Medicine, and Healing Discourse in Early Christianity written by Susan R. Holman and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-08-04 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using contemporary theories drawn from health humanities, this volume analyses the nature and effects of disability, medicine, and health discourse in a variety of early Christian literature. In recent years, the "medical turn" in early Christian studies has developed a robust literature around health, disability, and medicine, and the health humanities have made critical interventions in modern conversations around the aims of health and the nature of healthcare. Considering these developments, it has become clear that early Christian texts and ideas have much to offer modern conversations, and that these texts are illuminated using theoretical lenses drawn from modern medicine and public health. The chapters in this book explore different facets of early Christian engagement with medicine, either in itself or as metaphor and material for theological reflections on human impairment, restoration, and flourishing. Through its focus on late antique religious texts, the book raises questions around the social, rather than biological, aspects of illness and diminishment as a human experience, as well as the strategies by which that experience is navigated. The result is an innovative and timely intervention in the study of health and healthcare that bridges current divides between historical studies and contemporary issues. Taken together, the book offers a prismatic conversation of perspectives on aspects of care at the heart of societal and individual "wellness" today, inviting readers to meet or revisit patristic texts as tracings across a map of embodied identity, dissonance, and corporal care. It is a fascinating resource for anyone working on ancient medicine and health, or the social worlds of early Christianity.

Review of Biblical Literature, 2022

Author : Alicia J. Batton
Publisher : SBL Press
ISBN 13 : 1628374586
Total Pages : 565 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (283 download)

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Download or read book Review of Biblical Literature, 2022 written by Alicia J. Batton and published by SBL Press. This book was released on 2024-01-30 with total page 565 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The annual Review of Biblical Literature presents a selection of reviews of the most recent books in biblical studies and related fields, including topical monographs, multi-author volumes, reference works, commentaries, and dictionaries. RBL reviews German, French, Italian, and English books and offers reviews in those languages.

The Septuagint South of Alexandria

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004521380
Total Pages : 505 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book The Septuagint South of Alexandria written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-08-22 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents original research on the historical context, narrative and wisdom books, anthropology, theology, language, and reception of the Septuagint, as well as comparisons of the Greek translations with other ancient versions and texts.

Christians at Home

Author : Blake Leyerle
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271097884
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Christians at Home written by Blake Leyerle and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2024-06-19 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What did it mean for ordinary believers to live a Christian life in late antiquity? In Christians at Home, Blake Leyerle explores this question through the writings, teachings, and reception of John Chrysostom—a priest of Antioch who went on to become the bishop of Constantinople in AD 397. Through elaborate spatial and ritual recommendations, Chrysostom advised listeners to turn their houses into churches. Influenced by New Testament descriptions of the Pauline communities, he preached that prayer and chant, scriptural discussion and hospitality, and even domestic furnishings would have a transformational effect on a home’s inhabitants. But as Leyerle shows, Chrysostom’s lay listeners had different views. They were focused not on personal ethical change or on the afterlife but on the immediate, tangible needs of their households. They were committed to Christianity and defended the legitimacy of their views, even citing precedents from scripture in support of their practices By reading these perspectives on early Christian life through one another, Leyerle clarifies the points of disagreement between Chrysostom and his lay listeners and, at the same time, highlights their shared understanding. For both the preacher and his congregations, the household formed a vital ritual arena, and lived religion was necessarily rooted in practice. Elegantly written and convincingly argued, this study will appeal to scholars of theology, classics, and the history of Christianity in particular.

Monastic Economies in Late Antique Egypt and Palestine

Author : Louise Blanke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009278975
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Monastic Economies in Late Antique Egypt and Palestine written by Louise Blanke and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-04-20 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book situates discussions of Christian monasticism in Egypt and Palestine within the socio-economic world of the long Late Antiquity, from the golden age of monasticism into and well beyond the Arab conquest (fifth to tenth century). Its thirteen chapters present new research into the rich corpus of textual sources and archaeological remains and move beyond traditional studies that have treated monastic communities as religious entities in physical seclusion from society. The volume brings together scholars working across traditional boundaries of subject and geography and explores a diverse range of topics from the production of food and wine to networks of scribes, patronage, and monastic visitation. As such, it paints a vivid picture of busy monastic lives dependent on and led in tandem with the non-monastic world.

Stoicism in Early Christianity

Author : Tuomas Rasimus
Publisher : Baker Books
ISBN 13 : 1441233679
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (412 download)

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Download or read book Stoicism in Early Christianity written by Tuomas Rasimus and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highlighting the place of Stoic teaching in early Christian thought, an international roster of scholars challenges the prevailing view that Platonism was the most important philosophical influence on early Christianity. They suggest that early Christians were more often influenced by Stoicism than by Platonism, an insight that sheds new light on the relationship between philosophy and religion at the birth of Christianity.

Oxford Bibliographies

Author : Ilan Stavans
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780199913701
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (137 download)

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Download or read book Oxford Bibliographies written by Ilan Stavans and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An emerging field of study that explores the Hispanic minority in the United States, Latino Studies is enriched by an interdisciplinary perspective. Historians, sociologists, anthropologists, political scientists, demographers, linguists, as well as religion, ethnicity, and culture scholars, among others, bring a varied, multifaceted approach to the understanding of a people whose roots are all over the Americas and whose permanent home is north of the Rio Grande. Oxford Bibliographies in Latino Studies offers an authoritative, trustworthy, and up-to-date intellectual map to this ever-changing discipline."--Editorial page.

Changing Signs of Truth

Author : Crystal L. Downing
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 083086685X
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Changing Signs of Truth written by Crystal L. Downing and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2012-05-15 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crystal Downing brings the postmodern theory of semiotics within reach for today's evangelists. Following the idea of the sign through Scripture, church history and the academy, Downing shows you how signs work and how sensitivity to their dynamics can make or break an attempt to communicate truth.

The Christians as the Romans Saw Them

Author : Robert Louis Wilken
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300098396
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (983 download)

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Download or read book The Christians as the Romans Saw Them written by Robert Louis Wilken and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an engrossing portrayal of the early years of the Christian movement from the perspective of the Romans.

A History of the Christian Church

Author : Williston Walker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 662 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book A History of the Christian Church written by Williston Walker and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A History of Christianity

Author : Diarmaid MacCulloch
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141021896
Total Pages : 1065 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book A History of Christianity written by Diarmaid MacCulloch and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2010 with total page 1065 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a prize-winning author, this book charts the course of Christianity from ancient history onwards.

After Virtue

Author : Alasdair MacIntyre
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1623569818
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (235 download)

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Download or read book After Virtue written by Alasdair MacIntyre and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-10-21 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highly controversial when it was first published in 1981, Alasdair MacIntyre's After Virtue has since established itself as a landmark work in contemporary moral philosophy. In this book, MacIntyre sought to address a crisis in moral language that he traced back to a European Enlightenment that had made the formulation of moral principles increasingly difficult. In the search for a way out of this impasse, MacIntyre returns to an earlier strand of ethical thinking, that of Aristotle, who emphasised the importance of 'virtue' to the ethical life. More than thirty years after its original publication, After Virtue remains a work that is impossible to ignore for anyone interested in our understanding of ethics and morality today.

Prophetic Lament

Author : Soong-Chan Rah
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 0830897615
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Prophetic Lament written by Soong-Chan Rah and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2015-09-03 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American church avoids lament. But lament is a missing, essential component of Christian faith. Soong-Chan Rah's prophetic exposition of the book of Lamentations provides a biblical and theological lens for examining the church's relationship with a suffering world. Hear the prophet's lament as the necessary corrective for Christianity's future.

Saints and Symposiasts

Author : Jason König
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521886856
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book Saints and Symposiasts written by Jason König and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-23 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the afterlife of the classical Greek symposium in the Greco-Roman and early Christian culture of the Roman Empire. Argues that writing about consumption and conversation continued to matter, communicating distinctive ideas about how to talk and think, and distinctive and often destabilising visions of human identity and holiness.

The Patient Ferment of the Early Church

Author : Alan Kreider
Publisher : Baker Academic
ISBN 13 : 1493400339
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (934 download)

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Download or read book The Patient Ferment of the Early Church written by Alan Kreider and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2016-03-29 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How and why did the early church grow in the first four hundred years despite disincentives, harassment, and occasional persecution? In this unique historical study, veteran scholar Alan Kreider delivers the fruit of a lifetime of study as he tells the amazing story of the spread of Christianity in the Roman Empire. Challenging traditional understandings, Kreider contends the church grew because the virtue of patience was of central importance in the life and witness of the early Christians. They wrote about patience, not evangelism, and reflected on prayer, catechesis, and worship, yet the church grew--not by specific strategies but by patient ferment.

Dying and the Virtues

Author : Matthew Levering
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467449571
Total Pages : 451 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (674 download)

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Download or read book Dying and the Virtues written by Matthew Levering and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2018-01-23 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this rich book Matthew Levering explores nine key virtues that we need to die (and live) well: love, hope, faith, penitence, gratitude, solidarity, humility, surrender, and courage. Retrieving and engaging a variety of biblical, theological, historical, and medical resources, Levering journeys through the various stages and challenges of the dying process, beginning with the fear of annihilation and continuing through repentance and gratitude, suffering and hope, before arriving finally at the courage needed to say goodbye to one’s familiar world. Grounded in careful readings of Scripture, the theological tradition, and contemporary culture, Dying and the Virtues comprehensively and beautifully shows how these nine virtues effectively unite us with God, the One who alone can conquer death.