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Ignatius of Antioch and the Second Sophistic - A Study of an Early Christian Transformation of Pagan Culture (Paperback)
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Ignatius of Antioch and the Second Sophistic - A Study of an Early Christian Transformation of Pagan Culture (Paperback)
Series: Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum / Studies and Texts in Antiquity and Christianity, 36
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The letters of Ignatius of Antioch, whether considered genuine or
pseudonymous, have been generally understood as addressing concerns
and issues within the Church. Consequently, his language has been
read as an expression of second century Judaeo Christianity or as a
reply to Valentinianism, with little direct contact or concern with
the surrounding pagan culture. Allen Brent submits Ignatius'
language to a comprehensive analysis and seeks to show that both
conceptually, and in terms of the form of his arguments, his
language game is clearly that of the pagan, Greek city-states of
Asia Minor in the Second Sophistic. The author shows from a variety
of evidence, both literary, epigraphic and iconographic, that
Ignatius' cultural background is in the world of the discourse of
Hellenic autonomy against Roman imperial power, in the
image-bearing mystery cults of the cities to whom he writes, in
their embassies and Homonia treaties, and in their ideal of unity
in a common culture expressed by their constitutions and cultural
practices. Ignatius emerges as a brilliant missionary strategist,
able to reshape ecclesial order in terms of secular social order
and its conventions, whose work was scarcely comprehended by his
more conservative Christian contemporaries and only later canonized
by means of a gross distortion that obscured his original meaning.
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