Patterns of women's leadership in early Christianity
This authoritative collection brings together the latest thinking on women's leadership in early Christianity. Featuring contributors from key thinkers in the fields of Christian history, it considers the evidence for ways in which women exercised leadership in churches from the 1st to the 9th...
| Summary: | This authoritative collection brings together the latest thinking on women's leadership in early Christianity. Featuring contributors from key thinkers in the fields of Christian history, it considers the evidence for ways in which women exercised leadership in churches from the 1st to the 9th centuries CE. Cover -- Patterns of Women's Leadership in Early Christianity -- Copyright -- Foreword -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Maps -- List of Abbreviations -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Male-Female Missionary Pairings among Jesus' Disciples: Some Further Considerations -- Matters of Method -- Language: Distributive Repetition -- Ministry/Missionary Pairs -- Conclusions -- Chapter 2: Colleagues of Apostles, Presbyters, and Bishops: Women Syzygoi in Ancient Christian Communities -- Paul, Syzygos, and the Ancient Christian Debate -- Examples of Syzygoi -- Theosebia, Σύζυγος of a Presbyter and Bishop: Thecla's Heritage and Other Examples -- Women Leaders in the Early Church -- Origen and the Ordination of Women in ministerio ecclesiae -- Conclusions -- Chapter 3: The Entrepreneurial Widows of 1 Timothy -- The Rhetorical Construction of Widows in 1 Timothy -- Entrepreneurial 'Widows' in the Roman Empire and the Exhortation to (Re)marry -- Entrepreneurial Widows and Wives in New Testament and Early Christian Literature -- 'Relatively Wealthy' Women -- Industrious Widows and Female Patrons -- The Control of Single Female Artisans -- Chapter 4: Sacred Intercessors: Widows as Altar in Polycarp, Philippians -- Polycarp, To the Philippians -- The Widows Amongst Others: Comparing Polycarp's Treatment of Different Groups -- Speaking with God -- A Scene of Sacrifice: Widows as Altar of God -- Inspection for Blemishes -- Prayer and Sacrifice -- Widows, Sacrifice, and Community -- Chapter 5: The Image of the Feminine in the Gospel of Philip: An Innovative Assimilation of Paul's Gender Legacy in the Valentinian Milieu -- The Gospel of Philip and its Context: The Polyphony of Images of the Feminine in the Nag Hammadi Documents -- The Gospel of Philip and Paul's Legacy. |
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| ISBN: | 0192636901 |