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Ad Autolycum
Ad Nationes
Ad Scapulam
Ad Uxorem
Adversus Haereses
Adversus Marcionem
ancient rhetorical practice
Author_David Ivan Rankin
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Contra Celsum
De Idololatria
De Natura Deorum
De Natura Hominis
De Pallio
De Praescriptione Haereticorum
De Pudicitia
De Resurrectione
De Spectaculis
De Unitate Ecclesiae Catholicae
Didius Julianus
Domestic Concord
early Christian philosophy
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Greco-Roman society
Helvius Pertinax
Itinerant Teacher
Middle Platonists
patristic theology
patron client system
Peri Pascha
Roman imperial religion
Sentius Saturninus
social context of church fathers
timaeus
Timaeus 28c3-4
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780754657163
- Weight: 408g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Oct 2006
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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From Clement to Origen addresses the engagement of a number of pre-Nicene Church Fathers with the surrounding culture. David Rankin considers the historical and social context of the Fathers, grouped in cities and regions, their writings and theological reflections, and discusses how the particular engagement of each with major aspects of the surrounding culture influences, informs and shapes their thought and the articulation of that thought. The social and historical context of the Church Fathers is explored with respect to the Roman state, the imperial office and imperial cult, Greco-Roman class structures and the patron-client system, issues of wealth production and other commercial activity, the major philosophical thinkers in antiquity, and to rhetorical theory and practice and the higher learning of the day.
David Rankin is an ordained Minister of the Uniting Church in Australia. He is also Principal and Director of Studies in Church History at the church's theological college in Queensland (Trinity Theological College, Brisbane, Australia) and is currently Visiting Fellow in the School of Theology at Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia. Previous publications include: Tertullian and the Church, Cambridge University Press, 1995 (translated into Czech as Tertullianus á Cirkev, CDK Press, Brno, 2002).
