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Author | : Lynn H. Cohick |
Publisher | : Baker Academic |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2017-10-03 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1493410210 |
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From facing wild beasts in the arena to governing the Roman Empire, Christian women--as preachers and philosophers, martyrs and empresses, virgins and mothers--influenced the shape of the church in its formative centuries. This book provides in a single volume a nearly complete compendium of extant evidence about Christian women in the second through fifth centuries. It highlights the social and theological contributions they made to shaping early Christian beliefs and practices, integrating their influence into the history of the patristic church and showing how their achievements can be edifying for contemporary Christians.
Author | : Lynn Cohick |
Publisher | : Baker Academic |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 2009-11-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781441207999 |
Download Women in the World of the Earliest Christians Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Lynn Cohick provides an accurate and fulsome picture of the earliest Christian women by examining a wide variety of first-century Jewish and Greco-Roman documents that illuminate their lives. She organizes the book around three major spheres of life: family, religious community, and society in general. Cohick shows that although women during this period were active at all levels within their religious communities, their influence was not always identified by leadership titles nor did their gender always determine their level of participation. The book corrects our understanding of early Christian women by offering an authentic and descriptive historical picture of their lives. Includes black-and-white illustrations from the ancient world.
Author | : Carolyn Osiek |
Publisher | : Fortress Press |
Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 2009-12-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781451413557 |
Download A Woman's Place Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This focused look at women in the household context discusses the importance of issues of space and visibility in shaping the lives of early Christian women. Several aspects of women's everyday existence are investigated, including the lives of wives, widows, women with children, female slaves, women as patrons, household leaders, and teachers. In addition, several key themes emerge: hospitality, dining practices, and the extent of female segregation.
Author | : Carolinne White |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 335 |
Release | : 2010-01-28 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0141943378 |
Download Lives of Roman Christian Women Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
'Perpetua shouted out with joy as the sword pierced her, for she wanted to taste some of the pain and she even guided the hesitant hand of the trainee gladiator towards her own throat' Lives of Roman Christian Women is a unique collection of letters and documents from the third to the fifth centuries, celebrating Christian women from across the Roman Empire. During a crucial period in which Christianity transformed from a persecuted faith to the official religion of the Empire, these writings reveal the women who chose to dedicate their lives to Christ, by embracing martyrdom or by adopting a life of poverty and prayer, renouncing not only wealth but also their duties as wives and mothers.
Author | : Gillian Cloke |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2003-09-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1134868251 |
Download This Female Man of God Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book is a study of the contribution of women to the development of the newly legitimate Christian church in the twilight of the Western Roman Empire. There are many women noted for the example of their life in this period, regarded amongst the luminaries of the day; but while their male mentors, the patristic authors have retained their fame, the women who surrounded and influenced them have all but disappeared from sight. The women themselves are partly to blame for this, for in order to be pious it made sense to disguise one's sex sometimes literally: Dr Cloke gives examples of those whose sex was discovered only after their death - they sought to become androgynous, a third sex before God. This book looks at a multitude of examples in some detail and takes an overview of the role of Christian women at this time. It should appeal not only to historians, classicists and theologians, but also to anyone who takes a general interest in the changing status of women over the the centuries.
Author | : Joan E. Taylor |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 2021-02-18 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0198867069 |
Download Patterns of Women's Leadership in Early Christianity Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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.
Author | : Graham Joseph Hill |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 2020-04-30 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1532686137 |
Download Holding Up Half the Sky Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Women have played significant roles in ministry and leadership throughout the history of the church and the pages of the Bible. Today, women make up more than half the church, and do much of the mission, ministry, and discipleship in the life of the church. But women have often been held back from ministry roles. Graham Joseph Hill outlines the biblical vision for women in ministry and leadership. He offers a biblical and passionate call for women to be released to teach, to lead, to preach, to serve, to pastor, and to minister in every area of the church. The Bible paints a radical vision of women, empowered and emboldened for full ministry participation in Christ's church. The biblical vision for women and for their role as teachers, witnesses, disciplers, and leaders transforms not only personal lives, but also the church and the world. This book offers a biblical case for women teaching and leading in the church. Hill then explores practical ways that we can empower and release more female leaders in the church, and ways that we can amplify the voices and honor the gifts of women in the way Jesus intended. Together women and men can revitalize the church and renew the world.
Author | : Lynn H. Cohick |
Publisher | : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Total Pages | : 765 |
Release | : 2020-11-05 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1467459461 |
Download The Letter to the Ephesians Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The letter to the Ephesians provokes an array of interpretive questions regarding authorship, audience, date, occasion, purpose of writing, and the nature of its moral instruction—including its words addressed to slaves and masters. Interacting critically in an arena of intense debate, Lynn Cohick provides an exegetically astute analysis of the six chapters of Ephesians, offering an insightful account of the letter’s theology and soteriology as she attends to its expansive prose and lofty vision of God’s redemption. Cohick analyzes everything from the letter’s description of the church and its appeals for discipleship to the complex relationship between Jews and gentiles within the text and in the broader cultural context. Her extensive knowledge of the social realities of women and families in the ancient world is also evident throughout. Historically sensitive and theologically rich, Cohick’s commentary will be an abundant resource for a new generation of scholars, pastors, and lay leaders.
Author | : Mitri Raheb |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 711 |
Release | : 2020-12-15 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1538124181 |
Download The Rowman & Littlefield Handbook of Christianity in the Middle East Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This work represents the current and most relevant content on the studies of how Christianity has fared in the ancient home of its founder and birth. Much has been written about Christianity and how it has survived since its migration out of its homeland but this comprehensive reference work reassesses the geographic and demographic impact of the dramatic changes in this perennially combustible world region. The Rowman & Littlefield Handbook of Christianity in the Middle East also spans the historical, socio-political and contemporary settings of the region and importantly describes the interactions that Christianity has had with other major/minor religions in the region.
Author | : John Wayland Coakley |
Publisher | : Orbis Books |
Total Pages | : 1145 |
Release | : 2004-01-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1608333892 |
Download Readings in World Christian History: Earliest Christianity to 1453 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This companion to "History of the World Christian Movement explores how varied and multi-cultural Christian origins and history really are.