Neues Leben in der alten Welt

Der Beitrag fruhchristlicher Schriften des spaten ersten Jahrhunderts zum Diskurs uber familiare Strukturen in der griechisch-romischen Welt

by Dorothee Dettinger

Book cover: Neues Leben in der alten Welt

Extent: 432 pages

Publisher: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt

Subjects: Classical Studies, Religious Studies

Series: Arbeiten zur Bibel und ihrer Geschichte

Series volume number: 59

Language: German

Hardback (Published)

(August 2017)

ISBN: 9783374052219

6.06 x 9.06 inches

Price: $111.00

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Dorothee Dettinger’s study is concerned with how Christians of the late first century regarded it as necessary and possible to lead a new, faith-guided life within a non-Christian context. To this end, Christian guidelines regarding the relationships between men and women in marriage as well as between parents and their children are discussed on the backdrop of the Greco-Roman philosophical discourse in the 1st century Mediterranean. In particular, the study focuses on the specifically Christian character of the justifications of these guidelines and their underlying theological insights. As is shown, the structure of these justifications retroacts on the demanded kind of conduct and is thus closely tied to the content of the respective guidelines.

  • By (author) Dorothee Dettinger