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Christianizing Asia Minor :

1108481469

9781108481465

1108722504

9781108626620

9781108722506

Christianizing Asia Minor :

[Book]

conversion, communities, and social change in the pre-Constantinian era /

Paul McKechnie.

New York, NY, USA :

Cambridge University Press,

2019.

©2019

ix, 332 pages :

illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ;

24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Phrygia in the New Testament -- Hierapolis (Pamukkale) -- Teachers of Asia: Ignatius, Polycarp, Paul and Thecla -- Montanism part 1: the origins of the new prophecy -- Montanism part 2: Pepuza and Tymion -- Aberkios of Hierapolis (Koçhisar) and his gravestone -- Aberkios and the Vita Abercii -- Apollonia (Uluborlu): curiales and their families -- Eumeneia (Işikli) and the Eumeneian formula -- Christians for Christians -- The great persecution and the Phrygian fourth century.

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Paul McKechnie explores how Christianity grew and expanded in Roman Asia over the first three centuries of the religion. Focusing on key individuals, such as Aberkios (Avircius Marcellus) of Hierapolis, he assesses the pivotal role played by Early Christian preachers who, in imitation of Paul of Tarsus, attracted converts through charismatic preaching. By the early fourth century, they had brought many cities and rural communities to a tipping point at which they were ready to move under a 'Christian canopy' and push polytheistic Greco-Roman religion to the margins. This volume brings new clarity of our understanding of how the Christian church grew and thrived in Asia Minor, simultaneously changing Roman society and being changed by it. Combining patristic evidence with the archaeological and epigraphic record, McKechnie's study creates a strong factual and chronological framework to the study of Christianization, while bringing Church History and Roman history more closely together.

9781108626620

Church history-- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.

Christianisierung

Church history-- Primitive and early church.

Sozialer Wandel

Urchristentum

Turkey, Church history.

Anatolien

Turkey.

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