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Early Christian Women and Pagan Opinion - The Power of the Hysterical Woman (Hardcover, New)
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Early Christian Women and Pagan Opinion - The Power of the Hysterical Woman (Hardcover, New)
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This is a study of how women figured in public reaction to the
church from New Testament times to Christianity's encounter with
the pagan critics of the second century CE. The reference to a
hysterical woman was made by the most prolific critic of
Christianity, Celsus, and he meant a follower of Jesus, probably
Mary Magdalene, who was at the centre of efforts to create and
promote belief in the resurrection. MacDonald draws attention to
the conviction, emerging from the works of several pagan authors,
that female initiative was central to Christianity's development;
she sets out to explore the relationship between this and the
common Greco-Roman belief that women were inclined towards excesses
in matters of religion. The findings of cultural anthropologists of
Mediterranean societies are examined in an effort to probe the
societal values that shaped public opinion and early church
teaching. Concerns expressed in New Testament and early Christian
texts about the respectability of women, and even generally about
their behaviour, are seen in a new light when one appreciates that
outsiders focused on early church women and understood their
activities as a reflection of the nature of the group as a whole.
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