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.