Early Christian Women and Pagan Opinion: The Power of the Hysterical Woman Hardcover - 1996
by Margaret Y. MacDonald
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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 centre of 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 sets 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. Concerns expressed in New Testament and early Christian texts about the respectability of women, and even generally about their behaviour, are seen in a new light when one appreciates that outsiders focused on early church women and understood their activities as a reflection of the nature of the group as a whole.
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- Title Early Christian Women and Pagan Opinion: The Power of the Hysterical Woman
- Author Margaret Y. MacDonald
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 292
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Cambridge University Press, Spain
- Date 1996-10-03
- ISBN 9780521561747 / 0521561744
- Weight 0.98 lbs (0.44 kg)
- Dimensions 8.83 x 5.7 x 0.79 in (22.43 x 14.48 x 2.01 cm)
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Themes
- Religious Orientation: Christian
- Library of Congress subjects Church history - Primitive and early church,, Christianity and other religions - Roman
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 95051643
- Dewey Decimal Code 270.108
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