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Exploring the key documents, authors and themes of Early Christian
traditions, this volume traces the vital trajectories of emerging
distinctive Christian identity in the Graeco-Roman world. Special
attention is given to the coherent growth of Christian faith in
connection with worship, alongside the crucial transformation of
Christian life and doctrine under the Christian Emperors. As well
as offering a chronological development of the Early Church, the
book examines the interaction between Christian worship and faith.
In addition, readers interested in systematic theology can refer to
chapters on the roots of some significant theological notions in
Christian Antiquity, also with reference to ancient philosophy.
Issues addressed include: * Distinctiveness of the Christian
identity during the first centuries * Diversity of communities and
their theologies * Connection between faith and worship *
Transition from the persecuted minority to triumphant Church with
Creeds * History of early Christian thought and modern systematic
theology
Exploring the key documents, authors and themes of Early Christian
traditions, this volume traces the vital trajectories of emerging
distinctive Christian identity in the Graeco-Roman world. Special
attention is given to the coherent growth of Christian faith in
connection with worship, alongside the crucial transformation of
Christian life and doctrine under the Christian Emperors. As well
as offering a chronological development of the Early Church, the
book examines the interaction between Christian worship and faith.
In addition, readers interested in systematic theology can refer to
chapters on the roots of some significant theological notions in
Christian Antiquity, also with reference to ancient philosophy.
Issues addressed include: · Distinctiveness of the Christian
identity during the first centuries · Diversity of communities and
their theologies · Connection between faith and worship ·
Transition from the persecuted minority to triumphant Church with
Creeds · History of early Christian thought and modern systematic
theology
The relationship between the soul and the body was a point of
contentious debate among philosophers and theologians in late
antiquity. Modern scholarship has inherited this legacy, but split
the study of the relation of body and soul between the disciplines
of philosophy and religion. Lovers of the Soul, Lovers of the Body
integrates, with Plato and Aristotle in the background,
philosophical and religious perspectives on the concepts of soul
and body in the transformative period of the first six centuries
CE, from Philo to Olympiodorus. The polyphonic-but not
dissonant-philosophical and theological dialogue is recreated and
rethought by an international group of leading experts and
up-and-coming scholars in ancient philosophy, theology, and
religion. The synthetic approach of the volume presents the
understanding of human psychology in late antiquity, without labels
and borders. It invites both experts and enthusiasts to crisscross
the pathways of philosophy and religion in pursuit of new
crossroads and greater common ground.
Were slavery and social injustice leading to dire poverty in
antiquity and late antiquity only regarded as normal, 'natural'
(Aristotle), or at best something morally 'indifferent' (the
Stoics), or, in the Christian milieu, a sad but inevitable
consequence of the Fall, or even an expression of God's
unquestionable will? Social Justice and the Legitimacy of Slavery
shows that there were also definitive condemnations of slavery and
social injustice as iniquitous and even impious, and that these
came especially from ascetics, both in Judaism and in Christianity,
and occasionally also in Greco-Roman ('pagan') philosophy. Ilaria
L. E. Ramelli argues that this depends on a link not only between
asceticism and renunciation, but also between asceticism and
justice, at least in ancient and late antique philosophical
asceticism. Ramelli provides a careful investigation through all of
Ancient Philosophy (not only Aristotle and the Stoics, but also the
Sophists, Socrates, Plato, the Neoplatonists, and much more),
Ancient to Rabbinic Judaism, Hellenistic Jewish ascetic groups such
as the Essenes and the Therapeutae, all of the New Testament, with
special focus on Paul and Jesus, and Greek, Latin, and Syriac
Patristic, from Clement and Origen to the Cappadocians, from John
Chrysostom to Theodoret to Byzantine monastics, from Ambrose to
Augustine, from Bardaisan to Aphrahat, without neglecting the
Christianized Sentences of Sextus. In particular, Ramelli considers
Gregory of Nyssa and the interrelation between theory and practice
in all of these ancient and patristic philosophers, as well as to
the parallels that emerge in their arguments against slavery and
against social injustice.
This authoritative collection brings together the latest thinking
on women's leadership in early Christianity. Patterns of Women's
Leadership in Early Christianity considers the evidence for ways in
which women exercised leadership in churches from the 1st to the
9th centuries CE. This rich and diverse volume breaks new ground in
the study of women in early Christianity. This is not about working
with one method, based on one type of feminist theory, but overall
there is nevertheless a feminist or egalitarian agenda in
considering the full equality of women with men in religious
spheres a positive goal, with the assumption that this full
equality has yet to be attained. The chapters revisit both older
studies and offers new and unpublished research, exploring the many
ways in which ancient Christian women's leadership could function.
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