By Helen Rhee
Helen Rhee’s notable paintings is the 1st publication to compile The Apologies and the semi-fictional Apocryphal Acts and Martyr Acts in one examine. Filling an important hole within the scholarship, she seems to be at Christian self definition and self illustration within the context of pagan-Christian conflict.
Using an interdisciplinary strategy; ancient, literary, theological, sociological, and anthropological, Rhee experiences the Christians within the formative interval in their faith; from mid first to early 3rd centuries. She examines how the kinds of Greco-Roman society were tailored by means of the Christians to provide the prevalence of Christian monotheism, Christian sexual morality, and Christian (dis)loyalty to the Empire.
Tackling vast subject matters, together with theology, asceticism, sexuality and patriotism, this ebook explores problems with cultural identification and examines how those propagandist writings formed the theological, ethical and political trajectories of Christian religion and contributed mostly to the definition of orthodoxy.
This thorough learn will gain all scholars of early Christianity and Greco-Roman literary tradition and civilization.
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