Early Christians adapting to the Roman Empire : mutual recognition / by Niko Huttunen.
Material type: TextSeries: Supplements to Novum Testamentum ; 179.Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2020Description: 1 online resourceContent type:- text
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- online resource
- 9789004428249
- 9004428240
- Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600
- Christianity and other religions -- Paganism
- Paganism -- Relations -- Christianity
- Rome -- Religious life and customs
- Église -- Histoire -- ca 30-600 (Église primitive)
- Christianisme -- Relations -- Paganisme
- RELIGION / Biblical Studies / Exegesis & Hermeneutics
- Paganism
- Interfaith relations
- Christianity
- Church history -- Primitive and early church
- Rome (Empire)
- BR165
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"In Early Christians Adapting to the Roman Empire: Mutual Recognition Niko Huttunen challenges the interpretation of early Christian texts as anti-imperial documents. He presents examples of the positive relationship between early Christians and the Roman society. With the concept of "recognition" Huttunen describes a situation in which the parties can come to terms with each other without full agreement. Huttunen provides examples of non-Christian philosophers recognizing early Christians. He claims that recognition was a response to Christians who presented themselves as philosophers. Huttunen reads Romans 13 as a part of the ancient tradition of the law of the stronger. His pioneering study on early Christian soldiers uncovers the practical dimension of recognizing the empire"-- Provided by publisher.
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Preface -- 1 Introduction: Recognition between Anti- and Pro-Imperial Readings -- 2 Imperial Recognition in the Intellectual Sphere: Christians and Philosophers -- 1 Almost Philosophers: Pagan Philosophers Recognizing Christians -- 2 Early Christians Seeking Recognition in Greco-Roman Culture -- 3 Imagination Made Real: Paul between Political Realism and Eschatological Hope -- 1 Paul and His Readers -- 2 Paul's Realism and Imagination -- 4 Brothers in Arms: Soldiers in Early Christianity -- 1 Soldiers in the Gospels Contextualized -- 2 Metaphors, Antimilitarism, and Christian Soldiers -- 5 Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index -- .
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