Christianity and society
Subtitle: the social world of early Christianity
By: edited with an introduction by Everett Ferguson
Contributors: Ferguson, Everett, 1933-
Series: Recent studies in early Christianity -- 1
Publisher: Garland Pub.
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 410
Subjects: Christian sociology -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600
Notes: "Articles written during the last decade"--Series introd

Includes bibliographical references
Table of contents: title: Ideology, History, and the Construction of 'Woman" in Late Ancient Christianity / Elizabeth A. Clark; title: "Women's Religion" and Second-Century Christianity / Paul McKechnie; title: Clement of Alexandria: Conflicting Views on Women / Donald Kinder; title: The "Virgin Widow": A Problematic Social Role for the Early Church? / Charlotte Methuen; title: The Education of Girls in Fourth-Century Rome / Joan M. Petersen; title: "Submitting the Neck of Your Mind": Gregory the Great and Women of Power / Walter J. Wilkins; title: Helvidius, Jovinian, and the Virginity of Mary in Late Fourth-Century Rome / David C. Hunter; title: Augustinian Pessimism? A New Look at Augustine's Teaching on Sex, Marriage and Celibacy / David C. Hunter; title: "Love is the Hand of the Soul": The Grammar of Continence in Augustine's Doctrine of Christian Love / Gerald W Schlabach; title: "Pagan" and "Christian" Marriage: The State of the Question / Judith Evans Grubbs; title: The Fathers and the Children / Gillian Clark; title: Childhood in Eastern Patristic Thought : Some Problems of Theology and Theological Anthropology / Graham Gould; title: Ignatius, Ad Polycarp. 4.3 and the Corporate Manumission of Christian Slaves / J. Albert Harrill; title: Friendship and Subordination in Earthly Societies / Donald Burt; title: Problems in the History of Christian Friendship / David Konstan; title: Pagan-Christian Burial Practices of the Fourth Century : Shared Tombs? / Mark J. Johnson