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261. The Tapestry of Early Christian Discourse

     Rhetoric, Society and Ideology

     By Vernon K. Robbins

     Published September 4th 1996 by Routledge
262. Jesus Framed

     By George Aichele

     Series: Biblical Limits

     Biblical Limits is a new series which brings to the traditional field of Biblical Studies literary criticism, anthropology and gender-based approaches, thus reaching new ways of understanding Biblical texts.Jesus Framed is a collection of essays on reading the gospel of Mark. It uses literary...

     Published May 8th 1996 by Routledge
263. Maximus the Confessor

     By Andrew Louth

     Series: The Early Church Fathers

     St Maximus the Confessor, the greatest of Byzantine theologians, lived through the most catastrophic period the Byzantine Empire was to experience before the Crusades. This book introduces the reader to the times and upheavals during which Maximus lived. It discusses his cosmic vision of humanity...

     Published April 24th 1996 by Routledge
264. Christ's Body

     Identity, Culture and Society in Late Medieval Writings

     By Sarah Beckwith

     At the very heart of Christian doctrine and late medieval practice was the image of the crucified Christ. Sarah Beckwith examines the social meaning of this image across a range of key devotional English texts, using insights from anthropology and cultural studies. The image of the crucified Christ...

     Published March 27th 1996 by Routledge
265. Modelling Early Christianity

     Social-Scientific Studies of the New Testament in its Context

     Edited by Philip Esler

     Modelling Early Christianity explores the intriguing foreign social context of first century Palestine and the Greco-Roman East, in which the Christian faith was first proclaimed and the New Testament documents were written. It demonstrates that a sophisticated analysis of the context is essential...

     Published December 6th 1995 by Routledge
266. Companion Encyclopedia of Theology

     Edited by Peter Byrne, Leslie Houlden, Rev Prof Leslie Houlden

     Series: Routledge Companion Encyclopedias

     The Companion Encyclopedia of Theology provides a comprehensive guide to modern theological thought. An international team of theologians and practitioners of both the Christian and Jewish faiths investigate and consider aspects of theology in 48 self-contained articles. Neither partisan and...

     Published October 25th 1995 by Routledge
267. The Suffering Self

     Pain and Narrative Representation in the Early Christian Era

     By Judith Perkins

     The Suffering Self is a ground-breaking, interdisciplinary study of the spread of Christianity across the Roman empire. Judith Perkins shows how Christian narrative representation in the early empire worked to create a new kind of human self-understanding - the perception of the self as sufferer....

     Published July 26th 1995 by Routledge
268. John's Gospel

     By Revd Dr Mark W G Stibbe, Mark W.G. Stibbe

     Series: New Testament Readings

     John's Gospel is an innovative study which shows how the current plurality of literary methodologies can be used effectively to illuminate the text of the fourth gospel. Dr Stibbe, the well-respected author of three previous volumes on St John, uses the methods of structuralism, deconstructionism...

     Published September 28th 1994 by Routledge
269. Ephesians

     By Canon Martin Kitchen, Martin Kitchen

     Series: New Testament Readings

     This study approaches the Epistle to the Ephesians in a radically different way from traditional commentaries. Rather than analysing each individual verse, Martin Kitchen examines the complete text within the framework of contemporary biblical criticism. He acknowledges the debt which biblical...

     Published September 21st 1994 by Routledge
270. The First Christians in Their Social Worlds

     Social-scientific approaches to New Testament Interpretation

     By Philip F. Esler

     An examination of how the New Testament was influenced by the social realities of the early Christian communities for whom the books were wtitten. It reveals an intimate connection between society and Gospel....

     Published August 31st 1994 by Routledge