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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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Christianity in the Second Century shows how academic study on this critical period of Christian development has undergone substantial change over the last thirty years. The second century is often considered to be a time during which the Christian church moved relentlessly towards forms of institutionalisation and consolidated itself against so-called heretics. However, new perspectives have been brought within recent scholarship as the period has attracted interest from a variety of disciplines, including not only early Christian studies, but also ancient Judaism and the wider world of the early imperial scholarship. This book seeks to reflect this changed scholarly landscape, and with contributions from key figures in these recent re-evaluations, it aims to enrich and stimulate further discussion.

Church history --- 27 "01" --- 27 "01" Histoire de l'Eglise--?"01" --- 27 "01" Kerkgeschiedenis--?"01" --- Histoire de l'Eglise--?"01" --- Kerkgeschiedenis--?"01" --- Primitive and early church. --- 30-600. --- Church history - Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 - Congresses.

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"Making Amulets Christian: Artefacts, Scribes, and Contexts examines Greek amulets with Christian elements from late antique Egypt in order to discern the processes whereby a customary practice--the writing of incantations on amulets--changed in an increasingly Christian context. It considers how the formulation of incantations and amulets changed as the Christian church became the prevailing religious institution in Egypt in the last centuries of the Roman empire. Theodore de Bruyn investigates what we can learn from incantations and amulets containing Christian elements about the cultural and social location of the people who wrote them. He shows how incantations and amulets were indebted to rituals or ritualizing behavior of Christians. This study analyzes different types of amulets and the ways in which they incorporate Christian elements. By comparing the formulation and writing of individual amulets that are similar to one another, one can observe differences in the culture of the scribes of these materials. It argues for 'conditioned individuality' in the production of amulets. On the one hand, amulets manifest qualities that reflect the training and culture of the individual writer. On the other hand, amulets reveal that individual writers were shaped, whether consciously or inadvertently, by the resources they drew upon-by what is called 'tradition' in the field of religious studies

Amulets, Greek --- Church history --- Magic --- Incantations. --- Amulets, Greek. --- Religious aspects --- Christianity. --- Primitive and early church. --- 30-600. --- Egypt. --- 291.33 --- 291.33 Directe invloed op de goddelijke wil: hekserij; bezweringen; magie, toverij --- Directe invloed op de goddelijke wil: hekserij; bezweringen; magie, toverij --- Incantations --- Christianity --- Amulets, Greek - Egypt --- Church history - Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 --- Magic - Religious aspects - Christianity --- Amulettes --- 30-600 --- Incantations, Egyptian. --- Egypt --- Church history.

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In Monasteries and the Care of Souls in Late Antique Christianity, Paul C. Dilley explores the personal practices and group rituals through which the thoughts of monastic disciples were monitored and trained to purify the mind and help them achieve salvation. Dilley draws widely on the interdisciplinary field of cognitive studies, especially anthropology, in his analysis of key monastic 'cognitive disciplines', such as meditation on scripture, the fear of God, and prayer. In addition, various rituals distinctive to communal monasticism, including entrance procedures, the commemoration of founders, and collective repentance, are given their first extended analysis. Participants engaged in 'heart-work' on their thoughts and emotions, which were understood to reflect the community's spiritual state. This book will be of interest to scholars of early Christianity and the ancient world more generally for its detailed description of communal monastic culture and its innovative methodology.

Monastic and religious life --- History --- Early church. --- 30-600. --- 271-6 --- 271-6 Discipline en boetvaardigheid in het kloosterleven. Kloosterslot --- Discipline en boetvaardigheid in het kloosterleven. Kloosterslot

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Collection, with facing-page translations, of Greek and Latin Christian martyr narratives dating from the first four centuries CE. Focuses on the ancient martyrs executed before 260 CE, and examines which of their texts was known to Eusebius ot to Augustine.

Martyrs. --- Persecution --- Church history --- Heroes --- Martyrdom --- History --- 235.3*14 --- 235.3*14 Hagiografie: martyrium --- Hagiografie: martyrium --- Martyrs --- Antike. --- Christenverfolgung. --- Christliche Literatur. --- Frühchristentum. --- Heiligenvita. --- Literatur. --- Märtyrer. --- Martyrium. --- Early church. --- 30-600 --- Persecution - History - Early church, ca. 30-600 --- Martyres --- Acta martyrum