Sacred scripture and secular struggles / / edited by David Vincent Meconi, S.J.

• Superior document: Bible in Ancient Christianity, Volume 9
• TeilnehmendeR: Meconi, David Vincent,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston, Massachusetts : : Brill,, 2015.; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Bible in ancient Christianity ; Volume 9.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (299 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Twelve leading scholars have collaborated on this unique volume, bringing their biblical and patristic expertise together to show how the first followers of Jesus used their own canonical scriptures to address concerns central to life in the Roman Empire. Sacred Scripture and Secular Struggles offers an overview of how early Christians approached and appropriated biblical texts in addressing wider societal issues of imperial power, slavery, the use of wealth, suicide and other fundamental issues brought about by the convergence of empire and ecclesia.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Introduction / David Vincent Meconi S.J. -- 1 The Fragmentation and Inversion of Empire in the Christian Apocryphal Acts / Nicole Kelley -- 2 “Sic est voluntas Dei”: Latin Patristic Views on 1 Peter 2:13–17 / Jonathan P. Yates -- 3 Power and Tradition in Apostolic Constitutions 7 / Clayton N. Jefford -- 4 Tertullian and Military Service: The Scriptural Arguments in De corona / Geoffrey D. Dunn -- 5 Irenaeus and the Kingdoms of the World / D. Jeffrey Bingham -- 6 The Weak God of the Gospels: Mercy, Mysticism, and Martyrdom in Origen’s Contra Celsum / Roberto J. De La Noval -- 7 Diodore on the Politics of Kingship in Psalm 2 / Benjamin D. Wayman -- 8 Justus sibi lex est: The Donatist Interpretation of the Law in Romans 2:14 / Alden Lee Bass -- 9 Should a Christian Sell Everything? Early Interpretations of the Rich Young Man / Stephen M. Hildebrand -- 10 Abraham, Samson, and ‘Certain Holy Women’: Suicide and Exemplarity in Augustine’s De ciuitate dei 1.26 / Melanie Webb -- 11 From Slave to Friend: John 15, Philemon, and Slavery in Augustine / Joseph E. Capizzi -- 12 From Ordo to Potestas: Romans 13 and Saint Augustine’s Chastened Civil Confidence / David Vincent Meconi -- Bibliography -- Index.