Early Christian communities between ideal and reality
By: edited by Mark Grundeken and Joseph Verheyden
Series: Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament -- 342; Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament -- 342.
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Tübingen [Germany]
Language: eng; ger
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9783161526701
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Primitive and early church; History; Bible; Christian communities; Christianity and culture; History and criticism; Antiquities; Evangelisch-Lutherische Kirchengemeinde Dassensen; Apostolische Väter; Early Christian literature; Congresses; Church history; Frühchristentum; Fornkyrkan
Description: "The authors of this volume explore the notion of community as reflected upon in the writings of the Apostolic Fathers. Various aspects are dealt with, including concerns for organising the community, developing a sacramental and liturgical praxis, constructing identity against outsiders, spreading the Christian message, and building towards a better community. The interplay between ideal and reality in the sources offers some reliable information about day-to-day concerns and concrete situations in Christian communities from the end of the first century up to about 150 CE."--
Notes: "Proceedings of an international symposium held at the University of Leuven, 26-28 September 2012"--Introduction, page vii.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

9 contributions in English and 2 in German.
Table of contents: title: Sakramentale Praxis in Gemeinden des 2. Jahrhunderts  -- Andreas Lindemann; title: The didache and eucharist: signs of community?  -- Clayton N. Jefford; title: From glorious past to miserable present: First Clement on the organisation of the Corinthian community  -- Taras Khomych; title: Pneumatic democracy and the conflict in 1 Clement  -- John S. Kloppenborg; title: If Second Clement really were a "sermon," how would we know, and why would we care?: prolegomena to analyses of the writing's genre and community  -- James A. Kelhoffer; title: Christ and the apostles in the epistles of Ignatius of Antioch  -- Paul Foster; title: Baptism and [metanoia] in the Shepherd of Hermas  -- Mark Grundeken; title: From material place to imagined space: emergent Christian community as thirdspace in the Shepherd of Hermas  -- Harry O. Maier; title: From us but not of us?: moving the boundaries of the community  -- Judith M. Lieu; title: Barnabas and the outsiders: Jews and their world in the Epistle of Barnabas  -- James Carleton Paget; title: Identitätsbildung durch Konstruktion der "Anderen": die Schrift Ad Diognetum -- Tobias Nicklas.