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Space and Flourishing in Early Christianity and its Ancient Contexts book cover

1st Edition

Space and Flourishing in Early Christianity and its Ancient Contexts

Edited By Benjamin A. Edsall, Sarah Gador-Whyte Copyright 2027
256 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This volume brings together experts in ancient Mediterranean societies to explore ways in which space (real and imagined, lived and projected) contributed to conceptualisations of communal “flourishing” in Early Christianity and its broad ancient context. How to live well, or “flourish”, has long been an object of theorization; this volume approaches the issue of flourishing in Early... Read more

List of Contributors

List of Figures

1.     Space and Flourishing in Early Christianity: Framing the Issues - Benjamin A. Edsall and Sarah Gador-Whyte

2.     Herodotus and Tatian: Space and Flourishing among non-Greeks - Hyun Jin Kim

3.     There’s no Fasting at the Bridal Chamber: chronotope, practice, and flourishing in Mark 2 - Benjamin Edsall

4.     For the flourishing of the city: the creation of urban space in the Shepherd of Hermas and Clement of Alexandria - Harry O. Maier

5.     Christian leadership roles in gendered spaces: church orders, male exclusivity, and Christian meeting places - Joan Taylor

6.     The crocodile in the meadow: space and flourishing in Egyptian temples in the Roman period - Andrew Connor

7.     Making Civic Space Sacred and Performing Communal Flourishing in Late-Antique Liturgy - Sarah Gador-Whyte

8.     Heavenly Horticulture: Metaphors of Flourishing in Early Christian Imagery - Olympia Nelson

9.     Shared Spaces, Sacred Spaces and Bridging Space: An Archaeological View of Social Capital and Flourishing in the Villages of the Late-Antique Levant - Tamara Lewit

10.  Epilogue: The Dynamics of Space and Human Flourishing from Early Christianity to the Early Middle Ages - Bronwen Neil

Index

Biography

Benjamin A. Edsall is Associate Professor of Biblical and Early Christian Studies in the Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne, Australia.

Sarah Gador-Whyte is Senior Research Fellow of Biblical and Early Christian Studies in the Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne, Australia.

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