Early Christian Women and Pagan Opinion
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Early Christian Women and Pagan Opinion   -     By: Margaret Y. MacDonald

Early Christian Women and Pagan Opinion

Cambridge Bibles / 1996 / Paperback

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This is a study of how women figured in public reaction to the church from New Testament times to Christianity's encounter with the pagan critics of the second century CE. The reference to a hysterical woman was made by the most prolific critic of Christianity, Celsus, and he meant a follower of Jesus, probably Mary Magdalene, who was at the center efforts to create and promote belief in the resurrection. MacDonald draws attention to the conviction, emerging from the works of several pagan authors, that female initiative was central to Christianity's development. She set5s out to explore the relationship between this and the common Greco-Roman belief that women were inclined towards excesses in matters of religion. The findings of cultural anthropologists of Mediterranean societies are examined in an effort to probe the societal values that shaped public opinion and early church teaching.

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Title: Early Christian Women and Pagan Opinion
By: Margaret Y. MacDonald
Format: Paperback
Vendor: Cambridge Bibles
Publication Date: 1996
Weight: 14 ounces
ISBN: 0521567289
ISBN-13: 9780521567282
Stock No: WW567289

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A study of how women figured in public reaction to the church from New Testament times to the second century CE. MacDonald shows the conviction of pagan writers that female initiative was central to Christianity's development, and the belief that women inclined toward excesses in religion. Concern in the New Testament and early Christian texts about the respectability of women is seen in a new light when one appreciates that outsiders focused on early church women and their activities as a reflection of the group as a whole.

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