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Enslaved leadership in early Christianity /

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"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 a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shaner, Katherine Ann, 1976- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]
Subjects:
Christian leadership > History.
Enslaved Christians > History.
Church history > Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
Leadership chrétien > Histoire.
Église > Histoire > ca 30-600 (Église primitive)
RELIGION > Christian Church > History.
RELIGION > Christianity > History.
Christian leadership
Enslaved Christians
Church history > Primitive and early church
30-600
Electronic books.
History
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of 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.