Jaclyn L. Maxwell

Simplicity and Humility in Late Antique Christian Thought (eBook, PDF)

Elites and the Challenges of Apostolic Life

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Produktbeschreibung

Examines how the apostles'' manual labour, simplicity, and humility affected the worldviews of upper-class Christians in Late Antiquity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. März 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108936323
• Artikelnr.: 70913362

Autorenporträt

Jaclyn L. Maxwell is Associate Professor of History and Classics/Religious Studies at Ohio University. She is the author of Christianization and Communication in Late Antiquity: John Chrysostom and his Congregation in Antioch (Cambridge, 2006) and has received fellowships from Dumbarton Oaks and the American Council of Learned Societies.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Roman and Christian attitudes toward social and economic divisions (first-third centuries CE)
2. Christian attitudes toward social and economic divisions in Late Antiquity
3. Tentmakers and fishermen: the apostles' social status in Late Antiquity
4. Apostolic simplicity and elite education in Late Antique theological controversies
5. The virtue of humility in Late Antiquity
Conclusions.