Constructing Early Christian Families (eBook, PDF)

Family as Social Reality and Metaphor
Redaktion: Moxnes, Halvor

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The family is a topical issue for studies of the Ancient world. Family, household and kinship have different connotations in antiquity from their modern ones. This volume expands that discussion to investigate the early Christian family structures within the larger Graeco-Roman context. The essays in the volume offer original and diverse perspectives; particular emphasis is given to how family metaphors, such as 'brotherhood' function to describe relations in early Christian communities. Asceticism and the rejection of sexuality are considered in the context of Christian constructions of the family. Moxnes' volume presents a comprehensive and timely addition to the study of familial and social structures in the Early Christian world, which will certainly stimulate further debate.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134757442
• Artikelnr.: 43072483

Autorenporträt

Halvor Moxnes is Professor of New Testament at the University of Oslo, Norway. He is the author of The Economy of the Kingdom (1988) and other studies of social relations in early Christianity.

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations
List of contributors
Preface
List of abbreviations
1 INTRODUCTION
Part I The social context of early Christian families
Part II Family as metaphor
Part III Family
sexuality and asceticism in early Christianity
Index of ancient sources
Index of modern authors