The Urban World and the First Christians

The Urban World and the First Christians
Author: Steve Walton
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 404
Release: 2017
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0802874517

In the tradition of The First Urban Christians by Wayne Meeks, this book explores the relationship between the earliest Christians and the city environment. Experts in classics, early Christianity, and human geography analyze the growth, development, and self-understanding of the early Christian movement in urban settings. The book's contributors first look at how the urban physical, cultural, and social environments of the ancient Mediterranean basin affected the ways in which early Christianity progressed. They then turn to how the earliest Christians thought and theologized in their engagement with cities. With a rich variety of expertise and scholarship, The Urban World and the First Christians is an important contribution to the understanding of early Christianity.

The First Urban Christians

The First Urban Christians
Author: Wayne A. Meeks
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 326
Release: 2003-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780300098617

Meeks analyzes the letters of Paul to see what kind of people joined the Christian groups in the urban centers and what it was like to be a Christian then.

The Moral World of the First Christians

The Moral World of the First Christians
Author: Wayne A. Meeks
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Total Pages: 188
Release: 1986-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780664250140

Describes the social setting of the early Christians, looks at the Greek and Roman ethical traditions, and explains the moral formation of the beginning Christian movement

Who Were the First Christians?

Who Were the First Christians?
Author: Thomas Arthur Robinson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2017
Genre: History
ISBN: 0190620544

Challenges the consensus view of the urban character of early Christianity Demonstrates that almost every scenario in reconstructing early Christian growth is mathematically improbable and in many case impossible unless a rural dimension of the Christian movement is factored in Points to the likelihood that the marginal and the rustic made up a larger part of its membership than is generally recognized.

Seeking a City with Foundations

Seeking a City with Foundations
Author: David W. Smith
Publisher:
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2019-03
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781783684977

This updated edition of Seeking a City with Foundations, explores Christian responses to the city, ranging from rejecting the urban as evil, to embracing it as being central to God's redemptive purposes. Drawing from a wide range of disciplines, readers are given a detailed text confronting the challenges of urbanization to world Christianity.

The Village in Antiquity and the Rise of Early Christianity

The Village in Antiquity and the Rise of Early Christianity
Author: Alan Cadwallader
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 473
Release: 2023-12-28
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0567695964

A complete geographical and thematic overview of the village in an antiquity and its role in the rise of Christianity. The volume begins with a “state-of-question” introduction by Thomas Robinson, assessing the interrelation of the village and city with the rise of early Christianity. Alan Cadwallader then articulates a methodology for future New Testament studies on this topic, employing a series of case studies to illustrate the methodological issues raised. From there contributors explore three areas of village life in different geographical areas, by means of a series of studies, written by experts in each discipline. They discuss the ancient near east (Egypt and Israel), mainland and Isthmian Greece, Asia Minor, and the Italian Peninsula. This geographic focus sheds light upon the villages associated with the biblical cities (Israel; Corinth; Galatia; Ephesus; Philippi; Thessalonica; Rome), including potential insights into the rural nature of the churches located there. A final section of thematic studies explores central issues of local village life (indigenous and imperial cults, funerary culture, and agricultural and economic life).

Themelios, Volume 43, Issue 1

Themelios, Volume 43, Issue 1
Author: D. A. Carson
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 170
Release: 2018-09-12
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1725250675

Themelios is an international, evangelical, peer-reviewed theological journal that expounds and defends the historic Christian faith. Themelios is published three times a year online at The Gospel Coalition (http://thegospelcoalition.org/themelios/) and in print by Wipf and Stock. Its primary audience is theological students and pastors, though scholars read it as well. Themelios began in 1975 and was operated by RTSF/UCCF in the UK, and it became a digital journal operated by The Gospel Coalition in 2008. The editorial team draws participants from across the globe as editors, essayists, and reviewers. General Editor: D. A. Carson, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School Managing Editor: Brian Tabb, Bethlehem College and Seminary Consulting Editor: Michael J. Ovey, Oak Hill Theological College Administrator: Andrew David Naselli, Bethlehem College and Seminary Book Review Editors: Jerry Hwang, Singapore Bible College; Alan Thompson, Sydney Missionary & Bible College; Nathan A. Finn, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary; Hans Madueme, Covenant College; Dane Ortlund, Crossway; Jason Sexton, Golden Gate Baptist Seminary Editorial Board: Gerald Bray, Beeson Divinity School Lee Gatiss, Wales Evangelical School of Theology Paul Helseth, University of Northwestern, St. Paul Paul House, Beeson Divinity School Ken Magnuson, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary Jonathan Pennington, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary James Robson, Wycliffe Hall Mark D. Thompson, Moore Theological College Paul Williamson, Moore Theological College Stephen Witmer, Pepperell Christian Fellowship Robert Yarbrough, Covenant Seminary

The Social World of the First Christians

The Social World of the First Christians
Author: Wayne A. Meeks
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishing
Total Pages: 456
Release: 1995
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

F. Hock -- Paul's thorn and cultural models of affliction / Susan R. Garrett -- Light on Paul from the Testaments of the twelve patriarchs? / M. de Jonge -- God's new family in Thessalonica / Abraham J. Malherbe -- Parents and children in the letters of Paul / O. Larry Yarbrough -- Matthew and the spirit / Leander E. Keck -- The problem of perjury in Greek context : prolegomena to an exegesis of Matthew 5:33; 1 Timothy 1:10; and Didache 2.3 / John T. Fitzgerald -- The social world of James : literary analysis and historical reconstruction / Luke Timothy Johnson -- The footwashing in John 13:6-11 : transformation ritual or ceremony? / Jerome H. Neyrey -- Rich and poor, proud and humble in Luke-Acts / David L. Balch -- Visualizing the "real" world of Acts 16: toward construction of a social index / L. Michael.

The Moral World of the First Christians

The Moral World of the First Christians
Author: Wayne A. Meeks
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Total Pages: 188
Release: 1986
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN:

'As interesting to read as they are informative, the volumes in this important series deal in new ways with topics and materials that illuminate the life and literature of early Christianity....Taken as a whole, the series offers various new avenues of approach to an understanding of the social, intellectual, and literary environment of the early Christian movement.' -- Victor Paul Furnish, University Distinguished Professor of New Testament, Southern Methodist University.