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Space and Flourishing in Early Christianity and its Ancient Contexts

Space and Flourishing in Early Christianity and its Ancient Contexts

Edsall, Benjamin A.
Gador-Whyte, Sarah

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Studies in the Early Christian World

Ancient RomeGeneral Christianity

ISBN10: 1041021046
ISBN13: 9781041021049
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Sep 16 2026
Pages: 208
Weight: 1.06
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This volume brings together experts in ancient Mediterranean societies to explore ways in which space (real and imagined, lived and projected) contributed to conceptualizations of communal flourishing in early Christianity and its broad ancient context.

How to live well, or flourish, has long been an object of theorization; this volume approaches the issue of flourishing in early Christianity from an historical perspective, exploring constructions of and conditions for flourishing in ancient literary, visual and material culture. An introductory chapter offers a theoretical and methodological framework for the book, while subsequent chapters examine the production of spaces (ethnic, urban, liturgical, and religio-political) in ancient sources from the fifth century BCE to the eighth century CE, illuminating how they shape, enable, or interrupt aspects of flourishing. By bringing flourishing and space together with the ancient sources, this volume offers an historically grounded account of flourishing which has the ability to clarify and balance these contemporary discussions.

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