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Modelling early Christianity : social-scientific studies of the New Testament in its context
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ISBN: 0415129818 Year: 1995 Publisher: London New York Routledge

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The making of a Christian aristocracy
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ISBN: 0674043049 9780674043046 0674016033 9780674016033 9780674006416 0674006410 Year: 2002 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press

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What did it take to cause the Roman aristocracy to turn to Christianity, changing centuries-old beliefs and religious traditions? This title takes a fresh look at this much-debated question, looking at the historical evidence in order to try and understand why pagan aristocrats decided to convert to Christianity.


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Studien zur Soziologie des Urchristentums
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ISBN: 3161446518 9783161446511 Year: 1983 Volume: 19 Publisher: Tübingen Mohr Siebeck

The Germanization of early medieval Christianity : a sociohistorical approach to religious transformation
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ISBN: 0195360303 1280539968 1429405589 9781429405584 0195076966 9780195076967 019773927X Year: 2023 Publisher: New York ; Oxford University Press,

The first Christians in their social worlds : social-scientific approaches to New Testament interpretation
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ISBN: 0415111226 9780415111225 Year: 1994 Publisher: London New York Routledge

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Power through weakness : Paul's understanding of the Christian ministry in 2 Corinthians
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ISBN: 0521496403 0521616182 051152045X 9780521496407 Year: 1996 Volume: 86 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Dr Savage seeks to understand the apostle Paul's apparently contradictory description of his ministry in 2 Corinthians as one in which power is manifested through weakness: 'When I am weak, then I am strong!' This paradox becomes intelligible when it is understood that Paul's critics were influenced by a perspective which was the exact opposite of his: they imbibed the self-exalting outlook of their contemporary world, while he embraced the self-emptying gospel of Christ. Drawing from archaeological data on first-century Corinth, this study is unique in establishing both the secular underpinnings of Paul's paradoxical language and the devastating critique which that language offers on the general outlook of the first century. Paul emerges as a radical foil to the spirit of the age.

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