| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 263 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half-title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Connecting Dionysios: Connectivity and Early Christian Difference -- 2 Placing Dionysios: Corinth in the Second Century -- 3 Defining Dionysios: Ecclesial Politics and Second-Century Christianity -- 4 Debating Dionysios: Sexual Politics and Second-Century Christianity -- 5 Conjuring Crisis: Plague, Famine, and Grief in Corinth |
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6 Responding to Rome: Patronage, Kinship Diplomacy, and Dionysiosâ#x80;#x99; Letter to the RomansConclusion: After Dionysios: Collecting, Linking, and Forgetting Early Christian Networks -- Appendix A The Fragments of Dionysios -- Bibliography |
| Summary |
In this book, Cavan W. Concannon explores the growth and development of Christianity in the second century. He focuses on Dionysios of Corinth, an early Christian bishop who worked to build a network of churches along trade routes in the eastern Mediterranean. Using archaeological evidence, and analysing Dionysios' fragmentary letter collection, Concannon shows how various networks and collectives assembled together, and how various Christianities emerged and coexisted as a result of tenuous and shifting networks. Dionysios' story also overlaps with key early Christian debates, notably issues of celibacy, marriage, re-admission of sinners, Roman persecution, and the economic and political interdependence of churches, which are also explored in this study. Concannon's volume thus offers new insights into a fluid, emergent Christianity at a pivotal moment of its evolution |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Dionysius, Saint, Bishop of Corinth, active 2nd century
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| SUBJECT |
Dionysius, Saint, Bishop of Corinth, active 2nd century fast |
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Dionysius von Korinth, Korinth, Bischof, Heiliger ca. 2. Jh. gnd |
| Subject |
Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
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RELIGION -- Christianity -- History.
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Church history -- Primitive and early church
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Frühchristentum
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Corinth (Greece) -- Church history
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Greece -- Corinth
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Korinth
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| Genre/Form |
Church history
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781108302845 |
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110830284X |
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9781108302852 |
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1108302858 |
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9781108155373 |
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9781108302913 |
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