Religious Rivalries in the Early Roman Empire and the Rise of Christianity

It is obvious that the conceptual and methodological perspectives pro- posed earlier in order to come to grips with the Mishnaic ...

ance by Christians of some of the very same socio-economic spheres that Tertullian defines as arenas of full co-participation wi ...

CONCLUSION I am not prepared to offer a manual for the application of these conceptual, theoretical, and methodological perspect ...

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Part II MISSION? ...

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INTRODUCTION The immediate focus of this chapter is the geographical framework of Paul’s mission and, in particular, the possibi ...

moment, however, I am interested in his definition of what constitutes a missionary religion, and his argument that Christianity ...

vious paragraph. MacMullen points out that, after the end of the New Tes- tament period, there are very few references to missio ...

the former point? Despite their differences with respect to the later period, Goodman and MacMullen (and Harnack, too, for that ...

outlined above) that is most germane. Can we account for the pattern and sequence of Paul’s church-planting activity without app ...

ney to Rome, and appear near the conclusion of a substantial and care- fully considered letter written precisely for the purpose ...

refer to them with the name of the Roman province in which they were found. Sometimes this is simply a matter of convenience, as ...

ethnêhas not lost its basic sense of “nations,” so that the various Roman provinces function as the current manifestation of the ...

plete, once he had evangelized all the way to Spain. One is that, in both Jew- ish and Greco-Roman contexts, Spain was commonly ...

but, rather, as the outworking of a more deliberate “detailed strategy” and “vision” (Dunn 1988, 2:869). Nonetheless, without de ...

and that this is part of the way in which the Philippians are to shine in the darkness (O’Brien 1995, 118–19; Fee 1995). But the ...

Not that such evidence is wholly lacking: Paul holds open the possibil- ity that non-Christian husbands or wives will be won by ...

along afterward to water what Paul had planted, in the expectation that there might be divinely given increase (1 Cor. 3:5–14). ...

3:1; Col. 1:6), and celebrated those who were the “first fruits” of a new area (1 Cor. 16:15; Rom. 16:5), Paul nowhere gives us ...