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A New Testament scholar challenges the belief that American family values are based on "Judeo-Christian" norms by drawing unexpected comparisons between ancient Christian theories and modern discourses Challenging the long-held assumption that American values-be they Christian or secular-are based on "Judeo-Christian" norms, this provocative study compares ancient Christian discourses on marriage and sexuality with contemporary ones, maintaining that modern family values owe more to Roman Imperial beliefs than to the bible. Engaging with Foucault's ideas, Wheeler-Reed examines how conservative organizations and the Supreme Court have misunderstood Christian beliefs on marriage and the family. Taking on modern cultural debates on marriage and sexuality, with implications for historians, political thinkers, and jurists, this book undermines the conservative ideology of the family, starting from the position that early Christianity, in its emphasis on celibacy and denunciation of marriage, was in opposition to procreation, the ideological norm in the Greco-Roman world.

Christianity and culture --- Sex --- Sex. --- Early church. --- History --- History. --- Religious aspects --- Christianity. --- Judaism. --- Augustus, --- 30-600. --- Sex (Theology) --- 30-600 --- Early Church Period --- Primitive and Early Church Period

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Leo the Great was a major figure of the late Roman world whose life and work were profoundly intertwined with the political crisis of his day. As the western empire gradually succumbed to the advancing barbarian kingdoms, Leo understood that the papacy needed to expand its authority in order for the church to survive the demise of the political system. This book argues that his achievement was to transform the church not only in the practical level of administrative organization, but in the more fluid realm of thought and idea. The secular Rome that was crumbling was replaced with a Christian, universal Rome that he fashioned by infusing his theology with humanitarian ideals.

Church history --- Apostolic Church --- Christianity --- Church, Apostolic --- Early Christianity --- Early church --- Primitive and early church --- Primitive Christianity --- Fathers of the church --- Great Apostasy (Mormon doctrine) --- Primitive and early church. --- Leo --- Leo, --- Léon, --- Leon, --- Leone, --- Léon --- 30 - 600 --- Early Church Period --- Primitive and Early Church Period

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Ancient Christianity had an ambivalent stance toward violence. Jesus had instructed his disciples to love their enemies, and in the first centuries Christians were proud of this lofty teaching and tried to apply it to their persecutors and to competing religious groups. Yet at the same time they testify to their virulent verbal criticism of Jews, heretics and pagans, who could not accept the Christian exclusiveness. After emperor Constantine had turned to Christianity, Christians acquired the opportunity to use violence toward competing groups and pagans, even though they were instructed to love them personally and Jewish-Christian relationships flourished at grass root level. General analyses and case studies demonstrate that the fashionable distinction between intolerant monotheism and tolerant polytheism must be qualified.

Violence --- Persecution --- Church history --- Christianity and culture --- Persécutions --- Eglise --- Christianisme et civilisation --- Religious aspects --- Christianity. --- History --- Aspect religieux --- Christianisme --- Histoire --- Christianity --- 27 "00/04" --- 272 "00/03" --- Apostolic Church --- Church, Apostolic --- Early Christianity --- Early church --- Primitive and early church --- Primitive Christianity --- Fathers of the church --- Great Apostasy (Mormon doctrine) --- Kerkgeschiedenis--?"00/04" --- Kerkvervolging--"00/03" --- Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600. --- Violence -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. --- Religion --- Philosophy & Religion --- Persécutions --- Primitive and early church. --- 30 - 600 --- Early Church Period --- Primitive and Early Church Period --- Violent behavior --- Social psychology --- Religious aspects&delete& --- Violence - Religious aspects - Christianity --- Church history - Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600

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These proceedings present the results of the 11th International Colloquium on Gregory of Nyssa held in Tübingen in 2008. The Trinitarian thought of Gregory deserves special attention because of its importance for the ending of the Trinitarian controversy in the late fourth century, paving the way for the widely accepted Trinitarian theology in the fifth century. This volume (which does not include Contra Eunomium ) offers a contribution to the research on Gregory's Trinitarian theology as it is present notably in his so-called minor treatises. It provides a German translation of Ad Eustathium , Ad Graecos , Ad Ablabium , Ad Simplicium , Adversus Macedonianos , and De deitate filii . Detailed analysis of each treatise is accompanied by supporting studies on related theological and philosophical themes, followed by contributions which take into consideration the link between Gregory's Trinitarian thought and the christological question ( In illud tunc et inches per seconde filius , the anti-Apollinarist works).

Trinity --- Church history --- History of doctrines --- Gregory, --- Apollinaris, --- 276 =75 GREGORIUS NYSSENUS --- Griekse patrologie--GREGORIUS NYSSENUS --- Apolinarios, --- Apolinarius, --- Apollinaire, --- Apollinarius, --- Ghirīghūriyūs, --- Grégoire, --- Gregor, --- Gregori, --- Gregorio, --- Grēgorios, --- Gregorius, --- Grigoli, --- Grigoriĭ, --- Grzegorz, --- Qiddīs Ghirīghūriyūs Usquf Nīṣṣ, --- Conferences - Meetings --- Apollinaris --- Apollinarius Laodicensis --- Apollinaris Laodicenus --- Grigorije, --- Gregorius Nyssenus --- Gregor von Nyssa --- Gregorio di Nissa --- Gregorius van Nyssa --- Gregory of Nyssa --- Grégoire de Nysse --- Gregorius Nyssenus. --- Apostolic Church --- Church, Apostolic --- Early Christianity --- Early church --- Primitive and early church --- Primitive Christianity --- Fathers of the church --- Great Apostasy (Mormon doctrine) --- 30 - 600 --- Early Church Period --- Primitive and Early Church Period --- Primitive and early church. --- Early church. --- Grigar̲i, --- Gregory, - of Nyssa, Saint, - ca. 335-ca. 394 --- Apollinaris, - Bishop of Laodicea, - d. ca. 390

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The creation of the Christian Church is one of the most important stories in the development of the world's history, but also one of the most enigmatic and little understood, shrouded in mystery and misunderstanding. With a forensic, brilliant re-examination of all the key surviving texts of early Christianity, Geza Vermes illuminates the origins of a faith and traces the evolution of the figure of Jesus from the man he was - a prophet fully recognisable as the successor to other Jewish holy men of the Old Testament - to what he came to represent: a mysterious, otherworldly being at the heart of a major new religion.--

Christianity. --- Church history --- Primitive and early church. --- Jesus Christ. --- 30-600. --- Christianity --- Religions --- Apostolic Church --- Church, Apostolic --- Early Christianity --- Early church --- Primitive and early church --- Primitive Christianity --- Fathers of the church --- Great Apostasy (Mormon doctrine) --- Jesus Christ --- Christ --- Cristo --- Jezus Chrystus --- Jesus Cristo --- Jesus, --- Christ, Jesus --- Yeh-su --- Masīḥ --- Khristos --- Gesù --- Christo --- Yeshua --- Chrystus --- Gesú Cristo --- Ježíš --- Isa, --- Nabi Isa --- Isa Al-Masih --- Al-Masih, Isa --- Masih, Isa Al --- -Jesus, --- Jesucristo --- Yesu --- Yeh-su Chi-tu --- Iēsous --- Iēsous Christos --- Iēsous, --- Kʻristos --- Hisus Kʻristos --- Christos --- Jesuo --- Yeshuʻa ben Yosef --- Yeshua ben Yoseph --- Iisus --- Iisus Khristos --- Jeschua ben Joseph --- Ieso Kriʻste --- Yesus --- Kristus --- ישו --- ישו הנוצרי --- ישו הנצרי --- ישוע --- ישוע בן יוסף --- المسيح --- مسيح --- يسوع المسيح --- 耶稣 --- 耶稣基督 --- 예수그리스도 --- Jíizis --- Yéshoua --- Iėsu̇s --- Khrist Iėsu̇s --- ‏عيسىٰ‏ --- 30 - 600 --- Early Church Period --- Primitive and Early Church Period