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Patronage in Early Christianity

Patronage in Early Christianity

Paperback

Series: Princeton Theological Monograph, Book 160

General Christianity

ISBN10: 1597525871
ISBN13: 9781597525879
Publisher: Pickwick Publications
Published: Apr 14 2011
Pages: 212
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
How did the community we glimpse in the New Testament become an institution quite willing to have the emperor Constantine as a primary public partner? By tracing the use of resources, titles, and functions of leaders and patterns of honor giving, Wheatley traces from a wide variety of sources both acceptance and revision of Roman patronage in this countercultural community. Along the way, it is possible to see dissident groups like the Montanists and Marcionites more clearly and sympathetically, and to ask ourselves some pertinent questions about how a Christian community might function in the twenty-first century.

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