Title: Educating early Christians through the rhetoric of hell
Description: Meghan Henning explores the rhetorical function of the early Christian concept of hell, drawing connections to Greek and Roman systems of education, and examining texts from the Hebrew Bible, Greek and Latin literature, the New Testament, early Christian apocalypses and patristic authors.
Subjects: Undervisning, Helvetet, Rhetorik, Literatur, Paideia, Christianity, Bibel, Bibeln, Christliche Erziehung, Church history, History of doctrines, Fornkyrkan, Kristendom, Retorik, Historia, Religiösa aspekter, Future life, Unterwelt, Hölle, Education, Frühchristentum
Places: Römisches Reich, Griechenland
Time periods: Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600