Christianity and society :   the social world of early Christianity / 
edited with an introduction by Everett Ferguson 
 - New York :   Garland Pub.,   1999 
 - xii, 410 p.  ;  23 cm. 
 - Recent studies in early Christianity ;  1 .
<br/><br/>Ideology, History, and the Construction of 'Woman" in Late Ancient Christianity / Elizabeth A. Clark -- "Women's Religion" and Second-Century Christianity / Paul McKechnie -- Clement of Alexandria: Conflicting Views on Women / Donald Kinder -- The "Virgin Widow": A Problematic Social Role for the Early Church? / Charlotte Methuen -- The Education of Girls in Fourth-Century Rome / Joan M. Petersen -- "Submitting the Neck of Your Mind": Gregory the Great and Women of Power / Walter J. Wilkins -- Helvidius, Jovinian, and the Virginity of Mary in Late Fourth-Century Rome / David C. Hunter -- Augustinian Pessimism? A New Look at Augustine's Teaching on Sex, Marriage and Celibacy / David C. Hunter -- "Love is the Hand of the Soul": The Grammar of Continence in Augustine's Doctrine of Christian Love / Gerald W Schlabach -- "Pagan" and "Christian" Marriage: The State of the Question / Judith Evans Grubbs -- The Fathers and the Children / Gillian Clark -- Childhood in Eastern Patristic Thought : Some Problems of Theology and Theological Anthropology / Graham Gould -- Ignatius, Ad Polycarp. 4.3 and the Corporate Manumission of Christian Slaves / J. Albert Harrill -- Friendship and Subordination in Earthly Societies / Donald Burt -- Problems in the History of Christian Friendship / David Konstan -- Pagan-Christian Burial Practices of the Fourth Century : Shared Tombs? / Mark J. Johnson.  
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780815330684‎0815330685  
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Christian sociology History Early church, ca. 30-600.Christian sociology Early church.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BR166   / .C53 1999