Theology and practice in Early Christianity: essays new and old with updated reception histories
Der vorliegende Band enthält gesammelte Aufsätze von Troy W. Martin und bietet neue Einsichten in die frühchristliche Theologie und Praxis aus der Perspektive antiker Philosophie, Rhetorik, Physiologie und Medizin. Allgemeine Themen wie die Erlösung, Sakramente, Pneumatologie und Eschatologie werden...
| Summary: | Der vorliegende Band enthält gesammelte Aufsätze von Troy W. Martin und bietet neue Einsichten in die frühchristliche Theologie und Praxis aus der Perspektive antiker Philosophie, Rhetorik, Physiologie und Medizin. Allgemeine Themen wie die Erlösung, Sakramente, Pneumatologie und Eschatologie werden ebenso untersucht wie spezielle Praktiken wie Beschneidung, die Verschleierung von Frauen und Beziehungen zwischen Männern und Frauen. Early Christianity did not originate in a vacuum but in a world of linguistic, social, religious, and cultural richness and diversity. The twenty-two seminal essays in this volume — some previously published, some newly written — represent almost three decades of research by Troy W. Martin to understand how early Christianity developed in the ancient world. The broad-ranging investigations in these essays give attention not only to the linguistic and rhetorical features of early Christian texts, but also to the social, philosophical, physiological, and medical contexts in which these texts were written. The essays provide new understandings of early Christian conceptions of salvation and of the virtues of faith, hope and love that characterized early Christian communities. They include new medical and physiological explanations of early Christian sacraments, pneumatology, and eschatology and furthermore investigate early Christian communal life and practice, including the veiling of women, male/female relationships, and time-keeping. The essays include reception histories that describe their influence on subsequent research and place them within the context of contemporary research and scholarship. Those familiar with the well-trodden ground of New Testament studies will find in these essays new insights and previously unexplored comparative material for understanding early Christianity and the world in which it originated. |
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| ISBN: | 3161594886 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1628/978-3-16-159488-5 |