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Ignatius of Antioch and the Second Sophistic : a study of an early Christian transformation of pagan culture / Allen Brent.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum ; 36.Publication details: Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck, 2006.Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 377 pages) : 26 illustrationsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783161586422
  • 3161586425
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Ignatius of Antioch and the Second Sophistic : A Study of an Early Christian Transformation of Pagan CultureDDC classification:
  • 230 290
LOC classification:
  • BR1720.I4 B743 2006eb
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  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Methodological reflections -- The enigma of Ignatius of Antioch -- Ignatius' typology of church order -- Sacred images and mystery processions -- Ignatius' response to Roman imperialism -- Ignatius and Polycarp -- Ignatius and the Second Sophistic.
Review: "Ignatius of Antioch was the earliest Christian writer to develop a theology of church order and ministry that bears comparison with what became normative in later Christendom as that of bishops, priests and deacons. Allen Brent has produced a new account of the origin of such a concept of ministerial order in the religious cults and civic institutions of the pagan Greek city-states of Asia Minor in the second sophistic."--BOOK JACKET.

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Methodological reflections -- The enigma of Ignatius of Antioch -- Ignatius' typology of church order -- Sacred images and mystery processions -- Ignatius' response to Roman imperialism -- Ignatius and Polycarp -- Ignatius and the Second Sophistic.

"Ignatius of Antioch was the earliest Christian writer to develop a theology of church order and ministry that bears comparison with what became normative in later Christendom as that of bishops, priests and deacons. Allen Brent has produced a new account of the origin of such a concept of ministerial order in the religious cults and civic institutions of the pagan Greek city-states of Asia Minor in the second sophistic."--BOOK JACKET.