Download or read book First Converts written by Shelly Matthews and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has often been said that rich pagan women, much more so than men, were attracted both to early Judaism and Christianity. This book provides a new reading of sources from which this truism springs, focusing on two texts from the turn of the first century, Josephus's Antiquities and Luke's Acts. The book studies representation, analyzing the repeated portrayal of rich women as aiding and/or converting to early Judaism in its various forms. It also shows how these sources can be used in reconstructing women's history, thus engaging current feminist debates about the relationship of rhetorical presentation of women in texts to historical reality. Because many of these texts speak of high-standing women's conversion to Judaism and early Christianity, this book also engages in the current debate about whether early Judaism was a missionary religion. The author argues that focusing on these stories of women converts and adherents, which have been largely ignored in previous discussions of the missionary question, sets the missionary question in a new, more adequate framework. The first chapter elucidates a story in Josephus's Antiquities of the mishaps of two Roman matrons devoted to Isis and Jewish cults by considering the common Hellenistic topos linking high-standing women, promiscuity, and religious impropriety. The remaining chapters demonstrate that in spite of this topos, Josephus, Luke, and other religious apologists did tell stories of rich women's associations with their communities for positive rhetorical effect. In so doing, the book challenges the widespread assumption that women's association with "foreign" religious cults was always derided, questions scholarly arguments about public and private roles in antiquity, and invites reflection on issues of mission and conversion within the larger framework of Greco-Roman benefaction.

Download or read book The Conduct of the First Converts to Christianity written by Joshua Toulmin and published by . This book was released on 1788 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Catholic Converts written by Patrick Allitt and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the early nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century, an impressive group of English speaking intellectuals converted to Catholicism. Outspoken and gifted, they intended to show the fallacies of religious skeptics and place Catholicism, once again, at the center of western intellectual life. The lives of individual converts—such as John Henry Newman, G. K. Chesterton, Thomas Merton, and Dorothy Day—have been well documented, but Patrick Allitt has written the first account of converts' collective impact on Catholic intellectual life. His book is also the first to characterize the distinctive style of Catholicism they helped to create and the first to investigate the extensive contacts among Catholic convert writers in the United States and Britain. Allitt explains how, despite the Church's dogmatic style and hierarchical structure, converts working in the areas of history, science, literature, and philosophy maintained that Catholicism was intellectually liberating. British and American converts followed each other's progress closely, visiting each other and sending work back and forth across the Atlantic. The outcome of their labors was not what the converts had hoped. Although they influenced the Catholic Church for three or four generations, they were unable to restore it to the central place in Western intellectual life that it had enjoyed before the Reformation.

Download or read book The Convert s Guide to Roman Catholicism written by Keith Nester and published by . This book was released on 2021-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Convert's Guide to Roman Catholicism - Your First Year in the Church is a book written to help new converts to the Catholic Church as they take their first steps into their new faith. In his down to earth, humorous, and practical style, Keith Nester tackles various topics and situations faced by new converts such as: How to Come out as a Catholic, How to Find a local Church, What it's like for former Protestants to worship as Catholics, and much more. This book is a must have for new converts, and for anyone seeking to deepen their appreciation for their Catholic faith. The Convert's Guide to Roman Catholicism- Your First year in the Church will help you not just survive your first year as a Catholic, but will help you thrive as you begin your new life in the most ancient Church.

Download or read book Cannibals and Converts written by Maretu and published by [email protected]. This book was released on 1983 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Story of the Cook Islands immediately before the coming of Europeans written by a Rarotongan missionary.

Download or read book History of Latin Christianity written by Henry Hart Milman and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 1112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Ancient History written by Philip Van Ness Myers and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Selections from the sources" and "References (Modern)" at end of chapters."General bibliography": pages 609-616.

Download or read book The History of Christianity from the Birth of Christ to the Abolition of Paganism in the Roman Empire written by Henry Hart Milman and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 1112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book British Muslim Converts written by Kate Zebiri and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indispensable for anyone trying to understand Islam in the West When the Western mass-media talk of conversion to Islam, we are bombarded with accounts of vulnerable people brainwashed into a culture of extremism. However, in reality, the vast majority who convert are well-educated, and doing so as the result of a long-considered and heartfelt decision. What is more, their numbers are multiplying. The only exploration of this unique group in British society, this well-argued and powerful book investigates the fascinating contribution that Western converts to Islam are making to Islamic thought.

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