Sacred Scripture and Secular Struggles ( 1 )

Publication series ：1

Author： J.   David Vincent Meconi S.  

Publisher： Brill‎

Publication year： 2015

E-ISBN: 9789004304567

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9789004302648

Subject： B971 Bible

Keyword： 宗教

Language： ENG

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Description

Sacred Scripture and Secular Struggles shows how early Christians employed biblical texts in addressing wider societal issues of imperial power, slavery, the use of wealth, suicide and other fundamental issues brought about by the convergence of empire and ecclesia.

Chapter

Contents

Author Biographies

Introduction

Section 1 The Canonical Beginnings

Chapter 1 The Fragmentation and Inversion of Empire in the Christian Apocryphal Acts

Chapter 2 “Sic est voluntas Dei”: Latin Patristic Views on 1 Peter 2:13–17

Chapter 3 Power and Tradition in Apostolic Constitutions 7

Section 2 2nd and 3rd Century Developments

Chapter 4 Tertullian and Military Service: The Scriptural Arguments in De corona

Chapter 5 Irenaeus and the Kingdoms of the World

Chapter 6 The Weak God of the Gospels: Mercy, Mysticism, and Martyrdom in Origen’s Contra Celsum

Section 3 Scripture in the Service of Urban Unity

Chapter 7 Diodore on the Politics of Kingship in Psalm 2

Chapter 8 Justus sibi lex est: The Donatist Interpretation of the Law in Romans 2:14

Chapter 9 Should a Christian Sell Everything? Early Interpretations of the Rich Young Man

Section 4 Augustine’s Legacy

Chapter 10 Abraham, Samson, and ‘Certain Holy Women’: Suicide and Exemplarity in Augustine’s De ciuitate dei 1.26

Chapter 11 From Slave to Friend: John 15, Philemon, and Slavery in Augustine

Chapter 12 From Ordo to Potestas: Romans 13 and Saint Augustine’s Chastened Civil Confidence

Bibliography

Index

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