Sacred Scripture and Secular Struggles.

Intro -- Contents -- Author Biographies -- Introduction -- Section 1 The Canonical Beginnings -- Chapter 1 The Fragmentation and Inversion of Empire in the Christian Apocryphal Acts -- Chapter 2 "Sic est voluntas Dei": Latin Patristic Views on 1 Peter 2:13-17 -- Chapter 3 Power and Tradition in Apostolic Constitutions 7 -- Section 2 2nd and 3rd Century Developments -- Chapter 4 Tertullian and Military Service: The Scriptural Arguments in De corona -- Chapter 5 Irenaeus and the Kingdoms of the World -- Chapter 6 The Weak God of the Gospels: Mercy, Mysticism, and Martyrdom in Origen's Contra Celsum -- Section 3 Scripture in the Service of Urban Unity -- Chapter 7 Diodore on the Politics of Kingship in Psalm 2 -- Chapter 8 Justus sibi lex est: The Donatist Interpretation of the Law in Romans 2:14 -- Chapter 9 Should a Christian Sell Everything? Early Interpretations of the Rich Young Man -- Section 4 Augustine's Legacy -- Chapter 10 Abraham, Samson, and 'Certain Holy Women': Suicide and Exemplarity in Augustine's De ciuitate dei 1.26 -- Chapter 11 From Slave to Friend: John 15, Philemon, and Slavery in Augustine -- Chapter 12 From Ordo to Potestas: Romans 13 and Saint Augustine's Chastened Civil Confidence -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sacred Scripture and Secular Struggles shows how early Christians employed 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.

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