Winter, Bruce W.,

Divine honours for the Caesars : the first Christians' responses / Bruce W. Winter. - x, 338 páginas ; 23 centimetros

Bibliografía : páginas 307-323. Índices: páginas 328-330.

The all-pervasive and inescapable imperial cultic phenomena -- Festivities, holidays, new honours and Golden Ages -- Honours to, for and by the Caesars and reciprocal benefits -- Imperial endorsement of divine titles and 'declining' new temples -- Adopt, adapt, abstain : Jewish responses to divine honours -- The admission of new gods to Athens : Rome's and Paul's -- Promoting cultic honours in Achaea and exemption for Christians -- New imperial honours : some Corinthian Christians compromise -- Avoiding divine honours : some Galatian Christians' strategy -- Confrontation for Thessalonian Christians and the most divine Caesar -- Impending exile for Christians in Hebrews -- Conformity and commerce or capital punishment : new honours for Caesar.



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Cristianos--Actividad Politica--Roma.
Iglesia y estado--Roma.
Cristianismo y política-Historia-Iglesia primitiva, ca. 30-600.

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