Christian OriginsFortress Press, 1 de mar. de 2010 - 336 páginas Dealing with a time when "Christians" were moving towards separation from the movement's Jewish origins, this inaugural volume of A People's History of Christianity tells "the people's story" by gathering together evidence from the New Testament texts, archaeology, and other contemporary sources. Of particular interest to the distinguished group of scholar-contributors are the often overlooked aspects of the earliest "Christian" consciousness: How, for example, did they manage to negotiate allegiances to two social groups? How did they deal with crucial issues of wealth and poverty? What about the participation of slaves and women in these communities? How did living in the shadow of the Roman Empire color their religious experience and economic values? |
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... dominant order. The historical explorations in this volume thus do not have the prob- lem of some recent exercises in social history that have drawn criticism for having no genuine problem to figure out. The task before us is to explore ...
... dominant imperial cultural order, evoked resistance by scribal teachers, including those who produced in the Book of Daniel the visions of future restora- tion of the people's independence. The imperial regime's military enforce- ment ...
... dominant elite and the ordinary people in most ancient and medieval soci- eties.5 The Roman Empire, under which what became Christianity devel- oped in diverse communities, was dominated by a numerically tiny but extremely wealthy elite ...
... dominant culture becomes some- what cosmopolitan , popular culture is usually far more diverse in its local variations . Anthropologists and social historians , drawing on comparative studies of agrarian societies , have moved well ...
... dominant Greek urban and Roman imperial culture. On the other hand, it meant identifying with another subject people's tradition, in some relationship with whatever culture they brought with them into the new community. The resulting ...