Christianity and Society

The Social World of Early Christianity

Buch | Hardcover

422 Seiten

1999
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-8153-3068-4 (ISBN)

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First published in 1999. This volume selects some of the prominent aspects of the relations of Christianity in late antiquity to its social environment. Topics covered include women, sexuality, family, education, slavery, friendship, and burial practices.

First published in 1999. Social history occupies a major place in modern historical study, and this situation is no less true in the field of early Christianity, where social history has attracted a large number of studies in recent years. This volume selects some of the prominent aspects of the relations of Christianity in late antiquity to its social environment. Topics covered include women, sexuality, family, education, slavery, friendship, and burial practices.

Everett Ferguson is Professor of Church History Emeritus at Abilene Christian University. A specialist in early Christian history, his work in this field includes the books Encyclopedia of Early Christianity, Studies inEarly Christianity, and The Church of Christ: A BiblicalEcclesiology for Today

Series Introduction, Volume Introduction 1 Ideology, History, and the Construction of Woman in Late Ancient Christianity, Women's Religion and Second-Century Christianity, Clement of Alexandria: Conflicting Views on Women, The Virgin Widow: A Problematic Social Role for the Early Church? The Education of Girls in Fourth-Century Rome, Submitting the Neck of Your Mind: Gregory the Great and Women of Power, Helvidius, Jovinian, and the Virginity of Mary in Late Fourth-Century Rome, Augustinian Pessimism? A New Look at Augustine's Teaching on Sex, Marriage and Celibacy, Love is the Hand of the Soul: The Grammar of Continence in Augustine's Doctrine of Christian Love , Pagan and Christian Marriage: The State of the Question , The Fathers and the Children.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	19.8.1999
Reihe/Serie	Recent Studies in Early Christianity
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	940 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Sozialgeschichte
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
ISBN-10	0-8153-3068-5 / 0815330685
ISBN-13	978-0-8153-3068-4 / 9780815330684
Zustand	Neuware