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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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Christian education --- History --- 268 "00/04" --- -Education, Christian --- Religious education --- Theology, Practical --- Spiritual formation --- Theology --- Catechese. Godsdienstonderwijs--?"00/04" --- -Study and teaching --- Theses --- -Catechese. Godsdienstonderwijs--?"00/04" --- -Theses --- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 A.D. --- Church history --- Early church. --- Primitive and early church --- 30 - 600 --- Early Church Period --- Primitive and Early Church Period

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J. Cornelis de Vos examines the impact and reception of the Decalogue up to 200 CE, scrutinizing the versions of the Decalogue, and the history of the Decalogue in ancient Jewish writings, the New Testament, and early Christian writings. Almost all texts show an interconnection of identity and normativity: the Decalogue functions as an expression of fundamental moral concepts of socio-religious groups. At the same time, these groups enhance the Decalogue with normativity—sometimes even expanding on it—to make it a text that generates their own identity. This is the first study that presents an in-depth and continuous analysis of the early history of the Decalogue. Der Wirkung und Rezeption des Dekalogs bis 200 n.Chr. widmet sich J. Cornelis de Vos in dieser Studie. Dafür erforscht er zunächst die alten Textzeugen der beiden Dekalogfassungen, um anschließend zu fragen, wie die Zehn Gebote bei antik-jüdischen Autoren, im Neuen Testament sowie in frühchristlichen Schriften aufgenommen wurden. Es zeigt sich eine Verbindung von Normativität und Identität: Der Dekalog gilt zumeist als Ausdruck der moralischen Grundauffassungen sozioreligiöser Gruppen; er wird gleichzeitig von diesen Gruppen mit Normativität aufgeladen – manchmal sogar erweitert – gerade um als Identität stiftend für die eigene Gruppe zu gelten. Dies ist die erste Studie, die eine detaillierte und durchgehende Geschichte des Dekalogs in der Antike beschreibt.

241.6 --- 222.4 --- 222.4 Deuteronomium --- 222.4 Le Deuteronome --- Deuteronomium --- Le Deuteronome --- 241.6 Decaloog. Tien geboden --- Decaloog. Tien geboden --- Ten commandments --- Bible. --- Commandments, Ten --- Decalogue --- Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish --- History. --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- History --- Versions. --- Ten commandments. --- 30-600 --- Early Church Period --- Primitive and Early Church Period --- History |y Early church, ca. 30-600.

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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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This volume deals with the sermons of St. Maximus I, Bishop of Turin about AD 305-420. It presents an exemplary study which, besides clarifying problems of dating and authorship, points out the importance of context for an appropriate interpretation of sermon literature. The sermons are thus placed in the contexts of contemporary history, of society and of liturgy. The liturgical contextualisation forms the core of the book. The author reconstructs the liturgical year of late-Antique Turin and takes it as the basis of a detailed diachronic analysis of the bishop's preaching from advent to pentecost. Additionally, the Feasts of the Saints are seen in their kerygmatic function. In a concluding chapter the author tackles such problems as the exegetical nature of preaching and the importance of the Bible.

Sermons, Early Christian --- Preaching --- History and criticism. --- History --- 276 =71 MAXIMUS TAURINENSIS --- -Sermons, Early Christian --- -Early Christian sermons --- Christian literature, Early --- Christian preaching --- Homiletics --- Speaking --- Pastoral theology --- Public speaking --- Latijnse patrologie--MAXIMUS TAURINENSIS --- -History and criticism --- Religious aspects --- Maximus of Turin, Saint --- Turin (Italy) --- -Church history --- -Latijnse patrologie--MAXIMUS TAURINENSIS --- Early Christian sermons --- History and criticism --- Maximus, --- Maximus Taurinensis --- Turim (Italy) --- Torino (Italy) --- Augusta Taurinorum (Italy) --- Comune di Torino (Italy) --- Città di Torino (Italy) --- Taurasia (Italy) --- Julia Augusta Taurinorum (Italy) --- Church history. --- Maximus --- Sermons, Early Christian. --- Early church. --- Massimo --- 30 - 600 --- Early Church Period --- Primitive and Early Church Period --- Italy --- Sermons, Early Christian - History and criticism. --- Preaching - History - Early church, ca. 30-600.