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Early Christians adapting to the Roman Empire: mutual recognition

Early Christians adapting to the Roman Empire: mutual recognition
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ISBN 9004426159 (hardcover)
9789004426153 (hardcover)
Author Huttunen, Niko
Title Early Christians adapting to the Roman Empire : mutual recognition / by Niko Huttunen
Publisher Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2020
Physical desc. ix, 282 pages ; 25 cm.
Series Supplements to Novum Testamentum 179
Bibliography etc. Includes bibliographical references (pages [237]-266) and indexes.
Contents Introduction: Recognition between anti- and pro-imperial readings -- Imperial recognition in the intellectual sphere: Christians and philosophers. Almost philosophers: pagan philosophers recognizing Christians -- Epictetus: fearless people in sympathy with their words; Christians and philosophers at the end of the second century; Conclusions -- Early Christians seeking recognition in Greco-Roman culture. Athens and Jerusalem: still something in common; Paul, philosophy and the Torah; Mutual recognition becomes mainstream -- Imagination made real: Paul between political realism and eschatological hope. Paul and his readers: Paul's openness toward Roman society; Avoiding offense; exegetical attempts -- The unease of the Christian tradition -- Paul's realism and imagination: Paul's political realism and the law of the stronger; Coping strategies and the ethics of the stronger; The imagination made real -- Brothers in arms: soldiers in early Christianity. Soldiers in the Gospels contextualized: The army in Roman society; Soldiers in the Gospels; Conclusions -- Metaphors, antimilitarism, and Christian soldiers: Military metaphors -- The antimilitarism of Christian intellectuals and the Christian in the ranks of the Roman army -- Conclusions.
Subject Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600
Christianity and other religions -- Paganism
Paganism -- Relations -- Christianity
Rome -- Religious life and customs
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