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Christianity and society : the social world of early Christianity / edited with an introduction by Everett Ferguson.

Contributor(s): Ferguson, Everett, 1933-
Material type: TextTextSeries: Recent studies in early Christianity: 1.Publisher: New York : Garland Pub., 1999Description: xii, 410 pages ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0815330685 (alk. paper)Subject(s): Christian sociology -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600DDC classification: 270.1 LOC classification: BR166 | .C53 1999Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Ideology, History, and the Construction of 'Woman" in Late Ancient Christianity / Elizabeth A. Clark -- "Women's Religion" and Second-Century Christianity / Paul McKechnie -- Clement of Alexandria: Conflicting Views on Women / Donald Kinder -- The "Virgin Widow": A Problematic Social Role for the Early Church? / Charlotte Methuen -- The Education of Girls in Fourth-Century Rome / Joan M. Petersen -- "Submitting the Neck of Your Mind": Gregory the Great and Women of Power / Walter J. Wilkins -- Helvidius, Jovinian, and the Virginity of Mary in Late Fourth-Century Rome / David C. Hunter -- Augustinian Pessimism? A New Look at Augustine's Teaching on Sex, Marriage and Celibacy / David C. Hunter -- "Love is the Hand of the Soul": The Grammar of Continence in Augustine's Doctrine of Christian Love / Gerald W Schlabach -- "Pagan" and "Christian" Marriage: The State of the Question / Judith Evans Grubbs -- The Fathers and the Children / Gillian Clark -- Childhood in Eastern Patristic Thought: Some Problems of Theology and Theological Anthropology / Graham Gould -- Ignatius, Ad Polycarp. 4.3 and the Corporate Manumission of Christian Slaves / J. Albert Harrill -- Friendship and Subordination in Earthly Societies / Donald Burt -- Problems in the History of Christian Friendship / David Konstan -- Pagan-Christian Burial Practices of the Fourth Century: Shared Tombs? / Mark J. Johnson.

"Articles written during the last decade"--Series introduction.

Includes bibliographical references.

Ideology, History, and the Construction of 'Woman" in Late Ancient Christianity / Elizabeth A. Clark -- "Women's Religion" and Second-Century Christianity / Paul McKechnie -- Clement of Alexandria: Conflicting Views on Women / Donald Kinder -- The "Virgin Widow": A Problematic Social Role for the Early Church? / Charlotte Methuen -- The Education of Girls in Fourth-Century Rome / Joan M. Petersen -- "Submitting the Neck of Your Mind": Gregory the Great and Women of Power / Walter J. Wilkins -- Helvidius, Jovinian, and the Virginity of Mary in Late Fourth-Century Rome / David C. Hunter -- Augustinian Pessimism? A New Look at Augustine's Teaching on Sex, Marriage and Celibacy / David C. Hunter -- "Love is the Hand of the Soul": The Grammar of Continence in Augustine's Doctrine of Christian Love / Gerald W Schlabach -- "Pagan" and "Christian" Marriage: The State of the Question / Judith Evans Grubbs -- The Fathers and the Children / Gillian Clark -- Childhood in Eastern Patristic Thought: Some Problems of Theology and Theological Anthropology / Graham Gould -- Ignatius, Ad Polycarp. 4.3 and the Corporate Manumission of Christian Slaves / J. Albert Harrill -- Friendship and Subordination in Earthly Societies / Donald Burt -- Problems in the History of Christian Friendship / David Konstan -- Pagan-Christian Burial Practices of the Fourth Century: Shared Tombs? / Mark J. Johnson.

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