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Sacred scripture and secular struggles
- Title
- Sacred scripture and secular struggles / edited by David Vincent Meconi, S.J.
- Publication
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2015]
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- Additional Authors
- Meconi, David Vincent
- Description
- x, 289 pages; 25 cm
- Summary
- Twelve leading scholars have collaborated on this unique volume, bringing their biblical and patristic expertise together to show how the first followers of Jesus used their own canonical scriptures to address concerns central to life in the Roman Empire. This book offers an overview of how early Christians approached and appropriated biblical texts in addressing wider societal issues of imperial power, slavery, the use of wealth, suicide and other fundamental issues brought about by the convergence of empire and ecclesia.
- Series Statement
- The Bible in ancient Christianity, 1542-1295 ; volume 9
- Uniform Title
- Bible in ancient Christianity ; v. 9.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 266-282) and index.
- Contents
- Section 1: the canonical beginnings. The fragmentation and inversion of empire in the Christian Apocryphal Acts ; "Sic est voluntas Dei": Latin patristic views on 1 Peter 2:13-17 ; Power and tradition in Apostolic Constitutions 7 -- Section 2: 2nd and 3rd century developments. Tertullian and military service: the scriptural arguments in De corona ; Irenaeus and the kingdoms of the world ; The weak God of the Gospels: mercy, mysticism, and martyrdom in Origen's Contra celsum -- Section 3: Scripture in the service of Urban Unity. Diodore on the politics of kingship in Psalm 2 ; Justus sibi lex est: the Donatist interpretation of the law in Romans 2:14 ; Should a Christian sell everything? Early interpretations of the rich young man -- Section 4: Augustine's legacy. Abraham, Samson, and 'certain holy women": suicide and exemplarity in Augustine's De ciuitate de 1.26 ; From slave to friend: John 15, Philemon, and Slavery in Augustine ; From Ordo to Potestas: Romans 13 and Saint Augustine's chastened civil confidence.
- Call Number
- JFE 16-3232
- ISBN
- 9789004302648
- 9004302646
- 9789004304567 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2015028493
- OCLC
- 914296259
- Title
- Sacred scripture and secular struggles / edited by David Vincent Meconi, S.J.
- Publisher
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2015]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- The Bible in ancient Christianity, 1542-1295 ; volume 9Bible in ancient Christianity ; v. 9.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 266-282) and index.
- Added Author
- Meconi, David Vincent, editor.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 16-3232