| Description |
1 online resource (xxviii, 207 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
Power in perspectives: interpreting enslaved presence in archaeological materials -- Power plays: Roman policies, public slaves, and social status -- Voices of power: Onesimos, Paul, and the ambiguity of the enslaved in Christ -- Shifting power: ambiguous status, visual rhetoric, and the enslaved in imperial sacrificial practices -- Power in the ekklesia: contesting enslaved leadership in 1 Timothy and Ignatius |
| Summary |
"Pliny, the governor of Bithynia...records an important practice among Christian groups in Bithynia: enslaved persons participated in the religious practices of the community and even held specific titles....Enslaved Leadership in Early Christianity is neither a celebration of early Christian abolitionary impulses nor a venture into the horrors of enslaved life in the Roman Empire. Rather it is a study of tensions, ambiguities, and power contestations that arise with the presence of enslaved persons in ancient religious communities."--Introduction, pages xi-xii |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 28, 2022) |
| Subject |
Christian leadership -- History
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Enslaved Christians -- History
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Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
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RELIGION -- Christian Church -- History.
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RELIGION -- Christianity -- History.
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Christian leadership.
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Christian slaves.
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Church history -- Primitive and early church.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2018001595 |
| ISBN |
9780190275075 |
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0190275073 |
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9780190275082 |
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0190275081 |
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9780190842963 |
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0190842962 |
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0190275065 |
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9780190275068 |
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