The urban world and the first Christians / 
 Urban world and the 1st Christians 
edited by Steve Walton, Paul R. Trebilco, and David W.J. Gill. 
 - xv, 388 pages :  illustrations, maps ;  23 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-362) and indexes. 
<br/><br/>Cities as more than "scenery" / the editors -- I. Early Christianity in its ancient urban setting(s). Complicating the category of ethnos toward poliscentrism : a possible way forward within Second Temple ethnography / Anthony Le Donne -- Paul, Pentecost, and the nomosphere : the final return to Jerusalem in the Acts of the Apostles / Matthew Sleeman -- Paul's Caesarea / Joan E. Taylor -- Early Christianity in its colonial contexts in the provinces of the eastern Empire / David W.J. Gill -- Diaspora Jewish attitudes to metropoleis : Philo and Paul on balanced personalities, split loyalties, Jerusalem, and Rome / Jutta Leonhardt-Balzer -- Paul's mission strategy in the urban landscape of the first-century Roman Empire / Volker Rabens -- "Outside the city gate" : center and periphery in Paul's preaching in Philippi / C�edric Br�elaz -- The city as foil (not friend nor foe) : conformity and subversion in 1 Corinthians 12:12-31 / Helen Morris -- Engaging--or not engaging--the city : reading 1 and 2 Timothy and the Johannine letters in the city of Ephesus / Paul R. Trebilco -- Urbanization and literate status in early Christian Rome : Hermas and Justin Martyr as examples / Chris Keith -- Alexandria ad Aegyptum : the city that inspired a polyphony of early Christian theologies / Piotr Ashwin-Siejkowski -- II. Early Christian thinking about cities. City of God or home of traitors and killers? : Jerusalem according to Matthew / Anders Runesson -- Heavenly citizenship and earthly authorities : Philippians 1:27 and 3:20 in dialogue with Acts 16:11-40 / Steve Walton -- Spiritual geographies of the city : exploring spiritual landscapes in Colossae / Paul Cloke -- Re-placing 1 Peter : from place of origin to constructions of space / David G. Horrell -- Repairing social vertigo : spatial production and belonging in 1 Peter / Wei Hsien Wan -- Cities of Revelation : a tale of two (kinds of) cities / Ian Paul -- Conclusion. Research on urban Christian communities : looking ahead / David W.J. Gill and Paul R. Trebilco. 
<br/><br/> In the tradition of The First Urban Christians by Wayne Meeks, this book explores the relationship between the earliest Christians and the city environment. Experts in classics, early Christianity, and human geography analyze the growth, development, and self-understanding of the early Christian movement in urban settings. The book's contributors first look at how the urban physical, cultural, and social environments of the ancient Mediterranean basin affected the ways in which early Christianity progressed. They then turn to how the earliest Christians thought and theologized in their engagement with cities. With a rich variety of expertise and scholarship, The Urban World and the First Christians is an important contribution to the understanding of early Christianity. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780802874511 0802874517 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2017012591 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Chronological Terms: </label><br/>30-600 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Church history--Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.<br/>Cities and towns--Religious aspects--Christianity.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BR 166  / .U73 2017