Early Christians adapting to the Roman Empire : mutual recognition / by Niko Huttunen.
"In Early Christians Adapting to the Roman Empire: Mutual Recognition Niko Huttunen challenges the interpretation of early Christian texts as anti-imperial documents. He presents examples of the positive relationship between early Christians and the Roman society. With the concept of 'reco...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English Ancient Greek German Latin |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2020]
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| Series: | Supplements to Novum Testamentum ;
v. 179. |
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| Online Access: | JSTOR Open Access |
| Summary: | "In Early Christians Adapting to the Roman Empire: Mutual Recognition Niko Huttunen challenges the interpretation of early Christian texts as anti-imperial documents. He presents examples of the positive relationship between early Christians and the Roman society. With the concept of 'recognition' Huttunen describes a situation in which the parties can come to terms with each other without full agreement. Huttunen provides examples of non-Christian philosophers recognizing early Christians. He claims that recognition was a response to Christians who presented themselves as philosophers. Huttunen reads Romans 13 as a part of the ancient tradition of the law of the stronger. His pioneering study on early Christian soldiers uncovers the practical dimension of recognizing the empire."-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 282 pages). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9004428240 9789004428249 9004426159 9789004426153 |
| ISSN: | 0167-9732 ; |