Women and Knowledge in Early Christianity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women and Knowledge in Early Christianity write by Ulla Tervahauta. This book was released on 2017-10-17. Women and Knowledge in Early Christianity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Women and Knowledge in Early Christianity offers a collection of essays that deal with perceptions of wisdom, femaleness, and their interconnections in a wide range of ancient sources, including papyri, Nag Hammadi documents, heresiological accounts and monastic literature.
Women in the World of the Earliest Christians
Women in the World of the Earliest Christians - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women in the World of the Earliest Christians write by Lynn Cohick. This book was released on 2009-11-01. Women in the World of the Earliest Christians available 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.
Christian Women in the Patristic World
Christian Women in the Patristic World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Christian Women in the Patristic World write by Lynn H. Cohick. This book was released on 2017-10-03. Christian Women in the Patristic World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Mary and Early Christian Women
Mary and Early Christian Women - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mary and Early Christian Women write by Ally Kateusz. This book was released on 2019-02-18. Mary and Early Christian Women available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is open access under a CC BY-NC-ND license. This book reveals exciting early Christian evidence that Mary was remembered as a powerful role model for women leaders—women apostles, baptizers, and presiders at the ritual meal. Early Christian art portrays Mary and other women clergy serving as deacon, presbyter/priest, and bishop. In addition, the two oldest surviving artifacts to depict people at an altar table inside a real church depict women and men in a gender-parallel liturgy inside two of the most important churches in Christendom—Old Saint Peter’s Basilica in Rome and the second Hagia Sophia in Constantinople. Dr. Kateusz’s research brings to light centuries of censorship, both ancient and modern, and debunks the modern imagination that from the beginning only men were apostles and clergy.
Women and Early Christianity
Women and Early Christianity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women and Early Christianity write by Susanne Heine. This book was released on 2011-12-22. Women and Early Christianity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This important work discusses the new insights that feminist scholarship has brought to the study of the Bible and of other early Christian literature.Professor Heine comments on modern feminist interpretations of the life of Jesus, the crucifixion, Paul, Gnosticism, and other topics.The author finds in the views of some other feminists and aversion toward traditional historical critical methods in favor of responding to the subjectivist impact of the texts. She issues an appeal for a reappraisal--a second stage in the feminist movement that would be open to analysis and correction. What is needed is more rigorous application of scholarly methods to "counter prejudices through criticism, and negative experiences through active hope." If indeed Gal. 3:28 ("there is neither male nor female") reflects the practice and teaching of Jesus, then the church must conform to it, and women are freed from the need to seek legitimation from history or elsewhere.Dr. Heine brings an important--often sobering--new voice, a balanced and reasoned assessment of the repression and oppression of women in early Christianity.
