From Clement to Origen

The Social and Historical Context of the Church Fathers

David Ivan Rankin (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

182 Seiten

2016
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-27597-3 (ISBN)

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From Clement to Origen addresses the engagement of a number of pre-Nicene Church Fathers with the surrounding culture. David Rankin considers the historical and social context of the Fathers, grouped in cities and regions, their writings and theological reflections, and discusses how the particular engagement of each with major aspects of the surrounding culture influences, informs and shapes their thought and the articulation of that thought. The social and historical context of the Church Fathers is explored with respect to the Roman state, the imperial office and imperial cult, Greco-Roman class structures and the patron-client system, issues of wealth production and other commercial activity, the major philosophical thinkers in antiquity, and to rhetorical theory and practice and the higher learning of the day.

David Rankin is an ordained Minister of the Uniting Church in Australia. He is also Principal and Director of Studies in Church History at the church's theological college in Queensland (Trinity Theological College, Brisbane, Australia) and is currently Visiting Fellow in the School of Theology at Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia. Previous publications include: Tertullian and the Church, Cambridge University Press, 1995 (translated into Czech as Tertullianus Ã¡ Cirkev, CDK Press, Brno, 2002).

Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Rome and the Fathers; Chapter 3 Carthage and the Fathers; Chapter 4 Antioch, Asia Minor and the Fathers; Chapter 5 Alexandria and the Fathers; Chapter 6 Conclusions;

Erscheinungsdatum	08.01.2017
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	276 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
ISBN-10	1-138-27597-2 / 1138275972
ISBN-13	978-1-138-27597-3 / 9781138275973
Zustand	Neuware