Christianizing Asia Minor

Autorentext
Paul McKechnie is an associate professor in the Department of Ancient History at Macquarie University, Sydney. He is the author of The First Christian Centuries (2001).

Klappentext
Explores the growth of Christianity in inland Roman Asia, as cities and rural communities moved away from polytheistic Greco-Roman religion.

Zusammenfassung
Aimed at scholars and students of the early churches and of Roman history, this book brings a new clarity to our understanding of how the Christian churches lived together in the Asia Minor landscape in the first three centuries, changing Roman society and being changed by it.

Inhalt
1. Phrygia in the New Testament; 2. Hierapolis (Pamukkale); 3. Teachers of Asia: Ignatius, Polycarp, Paul and Thecla; 4. Montanism part 1: the origins of the new prophecy; 5. Montanism part 2: pepuza and tymion; 6. Aberkios of Hierapolis (Kochisar) and his gravestone; 7. Aberkios and the Vita Abercii; 8. Apollonia (Uluborlu); curiales and their families; 9. Eumeneia and the Eumeneian Formula; 10. Christians for christians; 11. The great persecution and the Phrygian fourth century; Appendix 1. The life-story and the way life of our father St Aberkios, the equal of the apostles; Appendix 2. Dated Eumeneian formula gravestones.

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