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Thecla's Devotion PB - Narrative, Emotion and Identity in the Acts of Paul and Thecla (Paperback)
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Thecla's Devotion PB - Narrative, Emotion and Identity in the Acts of Paul and Thecla (Paperback)
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Second century apocryphal Christian texts are Christian fiction:
they draw on the motifs of contemporary pagan stories of romance,
travel and adventure to entertain their readers, but also to
explore what it means to be Christian. The Thecla episodein the
Apocryphal Acts of Paul recounts the conversion of a young pagan
woman, her rejection of marriage, her narrow escapes from martyrdom
and the end of her story as an independent, ascetic evangelist. In
Thecla's Devotion, J.D. McLarty reads the Thecla episode against a
paradigm pagan romance, Callirhoe: for both texts the passions are
key to the unfolding of the plot - how are unruly emotions to be
managed and controlled? The pagan would answer, 'through reason'.
This study uses the portrayal of emotion within character and plot
to explore the response of the Thecla episode to this key question
for Christian identity formation.
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