Christianity and Roman Society
Christianity and Roman Society
Did Christianity transform the Roman world in which it began, or did the Roman world shape Christianity? This work explores current debates and new interpretations of Early Christianity in Roman Society. Adopting an interdisciplinary and thematic approach, it offers the student unfamiliar with the Christian tradition, a comprehensive introduction to its role in the Roman world.
- Offers a comprehensive introduction to the role of Christianity in Roman society
- Presumes no prior knowledge of Christianity
- Adopts an interdisciplinary approach of interest to historians, theologians, and sociologists of religion
Reviews & endorsements
"This book is a welcome contribution to recent efforts at creating a dialogue between Greco-Roman and patristic studies, to the mutual benefit of both...an impressive command of teh rapidly changing scholarship of late antiquity and its bearing on the first five centuries of Christianity." - Will Deming, University of Portland
Product details
December 2004Hardback
9780521633109
152 pages
235 × 157 × 15 mm
0.365kg
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Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Christians and others
- 3. The blood of martyrs
- 4. Body and soul
- 5. People of the Book
- 6. Triumph, disaster or adaptation?
