Constructing Early Christian Families : Family as Social Reality and Metaphor

ISBN-13: 9780415146388 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 288 str.

Halvor Moxnes

Opis

The family is a topical issue for studies of the Ancient world as family, household and kinship had different connotations in antiquity from their modern ones. This volume expands that discussion to investigate the early Christian family structures within the larger Graeco-Roman context. Particular emphasis is given to how family mataphors such as brotherhood function to describe relations in early Christian communities. Asceticism and the rejection of sexuality are considered in the context of Christian constructions of the family.

Spis treści

List of illustrations, List of contributors, Preface, List of abbreviations, 1 INTRODUCTION, Part I The social context of early Christian families, Part II Family as metaphor, Part III Family, sexuality and asceticism in early Christianity, Index of ancient sources, Index of modern authors

O autorze

Halvor Moxnes is Professor of New Testament at the University of Oslo, Norway. He is the author of The Economy of the Kingdom (1988) and other studies of social relations in early Christianity.