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Time of Troubles: A New Economic Framework for Early Christianity
Economic realities have been increasingly at the center of discussion of the New Testament and early church. Studies have tended to be either apologetic in tone, or...
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Justin against Marcion: Defining the Christian Philosophy
In a period where Christianity was only beginning to form a definitive identity, Marcion played a remarkable and generative role. Andrew Hayes takes the measure of his...
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The Burden of the Flesh: Fasting and Sexuality in Early Christianity
Shaw's rich and fascinating work provides a startling look at early Christian notions of the body--diet, sexuality, the passions, and especially the ideal of...
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Insights from Archaeology: Reading the Bible in the Twenty-First Century
Each volume in the Insights series presents discoveries and insights into biblical texts from a particular approach or perspective in current scholarship. Accessible and appealing...
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Writing Faith
In Writing Faith, Timothy Stanley provides a novel investigation into Jacques Derrida's unanswered question concerning the mediatic nature of Christianity. There, the relationship between writing and faith comes into sharper focus.
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Jesus and the Village Scribes: Galilean Conflicts and the Setting of Q
This volume challenges Gerd Theissen's dominant thesis of "wandering radicals" as the earliest spreaders of the Jesus tradition. Several conclusions emerge:...
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When Children Became People: The Birth of Childhood in Early Christianity
Bakke paints a fascinating picture of children's first real emergence as people against a backdrop of the ancient world. Using theological and social history...
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God Has No Favourites: The New Testament on First Century Religions
The New Testament does not conform neatly to any modern attempts to define the Christian approach to other religions, argues Basil Scott. He confronts the...
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The Ancient Church as Family
The author explores the literature of the first three centuries of the church in terms of group identity and formation as surrogate kinship. Why did this...
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Wealth and Poverty in Early Christianity
Wealth and Poverty in Early Christianity is part of Ad Fontes: Early Christian Sources, a series designed to present ancient Christian texts essential to an understanding of Christian theology, ecclesiology, and practice. This volume is designed to introduce the reader to the broad range of texts that reflect early Christian thoughts and practices on the topic of wealth and poverty.
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Behind the Gospels: Understanding the Oral Tradition
Behind the Gospels offers a general theoretical discussion of the nature of oral tradition and the formation of ancient texts and provides a critical survey of the field, from classical form-criticism down to the present day.
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Political Augustinianism: Modern Interpretations of Augustine's Political Thought
The thought of Saint Augustine stands as one of the central fountainheads of not only theology but Western social and political theory. This book examines the modern political readings of Augustine, providing an extensive account of the pivotal French, British, and American strands of interpretation.
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Augustine's Theology of Preaching
How do the theological convictions that Augustine brought to his preaching challenge, sustain, or shape our work today? By presenting Augustine's thought on preaching to contemporary readers Sanlon contributes a major new piece to the ongoing reconsideration of preaching in the modern day.
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The Nonviolent Messiah: Jesus, Q, and the Enochic Tradition
Simon J. Joseph contends that missing from scholars' various conceptions of the "messiah" are the unique conceptions of an Adamic redeemer figure in the Enochic material-conceptions that informed the Q tradition and, he argues, Jesus' own self-understanding.
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Christ the Miracle Worker in Early Christian Art
Images of Christ performing miracles or healings functioned as advertisements for Christianity and illustrated the nature of Christ.
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The Anointed Church: Toward a Third Article Ecclesiology
Over recent decades, Spirit Christology has utilized a pneumatological perspective to gain significant insight into the person and life of Christ. The Anointed Church extends this work, providing the first constructive and systematic ecclesiology developed through the approach of a Third Article Theology.
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The Disciples' Prayer: The Prayer Jesus Taught in Its Historical Setting
Christians around the world recite the "Lord's Prayer" daily, but what exactly are they praying for--and what relationship does it have with Jesus' own context?
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Augustine on War and Military Service
Philip Wynn uncovers a nuanced story of Augustine's thoughts on war and military service, and gives us a more complete and complex picture of this important topic.
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Roman Imperial Texts: A Sourcebook
Roman Imperial Texts includes freshly translated public speeches, official inscriptions, annals, essays, poems, and documents of veiled protest from the Empire's subject peoples.
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The Rise of Christian Beliefs: The Thought-World of Early Christians
Click below to watch Heikki Räisänen discuss The Rise of Christian Beliefs. Find more videos like this on Fortress Forum. Read Fortress Press's...
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