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Early Christian women and pagan opinion : the power of the hysterical woman
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ISBN: 0521567289 0521561744 0511520549 0511821905 Year: 1996 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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This is a study of how women figured in public reaction to the church from New Testament times to Christianity's encounter with the pagan critics of the second century CE. The reference to a hysterical woman was made by the most prolific critic of Christianity, Celsus. He was referring to a follower of Jesus - probably Mary Magdalene - who was at the centre of efforts to create and promote belief in the resurrection. MacDonald draws attention to the conviction, emerging from the works of several pagan authors, that female initiative was central to Christianity's development; she sets out to explore the relationship between this and the common Greco-Roman belief that women were inclined towards excesses in religion. The findings of cultural anthropologists of Mediterranean societies are examined in an effort to probe the societal values that shaped public opinion and early church teaching. Concerns expressed in New Testament and early Christian texts about the respectability of women, and even generally about their behaviour, are seen in a new light when one appreciates that outsiders focused on early church women and understood their activities as a reflection of the group as a whole.


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De Russisch-Orthodoxe kerk.
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ISBN: 9029713607 Year: 1996 Publisher: Kampen Kok Voorhoeve


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La chrétienté orientale du début du VIIe siècle au milieu du XIe siècle : textes et documents
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ISBN: 2718195215 9782718195216 Year: 1996 Volume: 115 Publisher: Paris SEDES

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New perspectives on historical theology : essays in memory of John Meyendorff
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ISBN: 0802807046 9780802807045 Year: 1996 Publisher: Grand Rapids (Mich.): Eerdmans

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Authority and the sacred : aspects of the christianisation of the Roman world.
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ISBN: 0521499046 0521495571 9780521499040 Year: 1996 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge university press,

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