The Urban World and the First Christians
Edited by
Steve Walton
Paul R. Trebilco
and
David W. J. Gill
William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Grand Rapids, Michigan
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.
2140 Oak Industrial Drive N.E., Grand Rapids, Michigan 49505
© 2017 Steve Walton, Paul Trebilco, and David W. J. Gill
All rights reserved
Published 2017
isbn 978-0-8028-7451-1
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Walton, Steve, 1955- editor.
Title: The urban world and the first Christians / edited by Steve Walton, Paul R. Trebilco, and David W. J. Gill.
Description: Grand Rapids : Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2017. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017012591 | ISBN 9780802874511 (pbk.)
Subjects: LCSH: Church history—Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600. | Cities and towns—Religious aspects—Christianity.
Classification: LCC BR166 .U73 2017 | DDC 270.1—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017012591
the editors
I. Early Christianity in Its Ancient Urban Setting(s)
Complicating the Category of Ethnos toward Poliscentrism
A Possible Way Forward within Second Temple Ethnography
anthony le donne
Paul, Pentecost, and the Nomosphere
The Final Return to Jerusalem in the Acts of the Apostles
matthew sleeman
joan e. taylor
Early Christianity in Its Colonial Contexts in the Provinces of the Eastern Empire
david w. j. gill
Diaspora Jewish Attitudes to Metropoleis
Philo and Paul on Balanced Personalities, Split Loyalties, Jerusalem, and Rome
jutta leonhardt-balzer
Paul’s Mission Strategy in the Urban Landscape of the First-Century Roman Empire
volker rabens
Center and Periphery in Paul’s Preaching in Philippi
cédric brélaz
The City as Foil (Not Friend nor Foe)
Conformity and Subversion in 1 Corinthians 12:12–31
helen morris
Engaging—or Not Engaging—the City
Reading 1 and 2 Timothy and the Johannine Letters in the City of Ephesus
paul r. trebilco
Urbanization and Literate Status in Early Christian Rome
Hermas and Justin Martyr as Examples
chris keith
The City That Inspired a Polyphony of Early Christian Theologies
piotr ashwin-siejkowski
II. Early Christian Thinking about Cities
City of God or Home of Traitors and Killers?
Jerusalem according to Matthew
anders runesson
Heavenly Citizenship and Earthly Authorities
Philippians 1:27 and 3:20 in Dialogue with Acts 16:11–40
steve walton
Spiritual Geographies of the City
Exploring Spiritual Landscapes in Colossae
paul cloke
From Place of Origin to Constructions of Space
david g. horrell
Spatial Production and Belonging in 1 Peter
wei hsien wan
A Tale of Two (Kinds of) Cities
ian paul
Research on Urban Christian Communities
david w. j. gill and paul r. trebilco
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About The Urban World and the First ChristiansIn the tradition of The First Urban Christians by Wayne Meeks, this book explores the relationship between the earliest Christians and the city environment. Experts in classics, early Christianity, and human geography analyze the growth, development, and self-understanding of the early Christian movement in urban settings. The book’s contributors first look at how the urban physical, cultural, and social environments of the ancient Mediterranean basin affected the ways in which early Christianity progressed. They then turn to how the earliest Christians thought and theologized in their engagement with cities. With a rich variety of expertise and scholarship, The Urban World and the First Christians is an important contribution to the understanding of early Christianity. |
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