Early Christianity and Greek Paideia

Author: Werner Jaeger
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674220522
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 166

Book Description
This small book, the last work of a world-renowned scholar, has established itself as a classic. It provides a superb overview of the vast historical process by which Christianity was Hellenized and Hellenic civilization became Christianized. Werner Jaeger shows that without the large postclassical expansion of Greek culture the rise of a Christian world religion would have been impossible. He explains why the Hellenization of Christianity was necessary in apostolic and postapostalic times; points out similarities between Greek philosophy and Christian belief; discuss such key figures as Clement, Origen, and Gregory of Nyssa; and touches on the controversies that led to the ultimate complex synthesis of Greek and Christian thought.

Paideia: The Ideals of Greek Culture

Author: Werner Jaeger
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195364910
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 383

Book Description
Werner Jaeger's classic three-volume work, originally published in 1939, is now available in paperback. Paideia, the shaping of Greek character through a union of civilization, tradition, literature, and philosophy is the basis for Jaeger's evaluation of Hellenic culture. Volume I describes the foundation, growth, and crisis of Greek culture during the archaic and classical epochs, ending with the collapse of the Athenian empire. The second and third volumes of the work deal with the intellectual history of ancient Greece in the Age of Plato, the 4th century B.C.--the age in which Greece lost everything that is valued in this world--state, power, liberty--but still clung to the concept of paideia. As its last great poet, Menander summarized the primary role of this ideal in Greek culture when he said: "The possession which no one can take away from man is paideia."

Educating Early Christians through the Rhetoric of Hell

Author: Meghan Henning
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
ISBN: 9783161529634
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 328

Book Description
Meghan Henning explores the rhetorical function of the early Christian concept of hell, drawing connections to Greek and Roman systems of education, and examining texts from the Hebrew Bible, Greek and Latin literature, the New Testament, early Christian apocalypses and patristic authors.

Pedagogy in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity

Author: Karina Martin Hogan
Publisher: SBL Press
ISBN: 0884142078
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 425

Book Description
Engage fourteen essays from an international group of experts There is little direct evidence for formal education in the Bible and in the texts of Second Temple Judaism and early Christianity. At the same time, pedagogy and character formation are important themes in many of these texts. This book explores the pedagogical purpose of wisdom literature, in which the concept of discipline (Hebrew musar) is closely tied to the acquisition of wisdom. It examines how and why the concept of musar came to be translated as paideia (education, enculturation) in the Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible (Septuagint), and how the concept of paideia was deployed by ancient Jewish authors writing in Greek. The different understandings of paideia in wisdom and apocalyptic writings of Second Temple Judaism are this book's primary focus. It also examines how early Christians adapted the concept of paideia, influenced by both the Septuagint and Greco-Roman understandings of this concept. Features A thorough lexical study of the term paideia in the Septuagint Exploration of the relationship of wisdom and Torah in Second Temple Judaism Examination of how Christians developed new forms of pedagogy in competition with Jewish and pagan systems of education

Early Christianity and Greek Paideia

Author: Werner Jäger
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 154

Book Description

Monastic Education in Late Antiquity

Author: Lillian I. Larsen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107194954
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 411

Book Description
Redefines the role assigned education in the history of monasticism, by re-situating monasticism in the history of education.

Second Temple Jewish “Paideia” in Context

Author: Jason M. Zurawski
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110546116
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 331

Book Description
Despite the impressive strides made in the past century in the understanding of Second Temple Jewish history and the strong scholarly interest in paideia within ancient Greek, Hellenistic, Roman, and late antique Christian cultures, the nature of Jewish paideia during the period has, until recently, received surprisingly little attention. The essays collected here were first offered for discussion at the Fifth Enoch Seminar Nangeroni Meeting, held in Naples, Italy, from June 30 – July 4, 2015, the purpose of which was to gain greater insight into the diversity of views of Jewish education during the period, both in Judea and Diaspora communities, by viewing them in light of their contemporary Greco-Roman backgrounds and Ancient Near Eastern influences. Together, they represent the broad array of approaches and specialties required to comprehend this complex and multi-faceted subject, and they demonstrate the fundamental importance of the topic for a fuller understanding of the period. The volume will be of particular interest to students and scholars of the history and culture of the Jewish people during the Hellenistic and Roman periods, ancient education, and Greek and Roman history.

Repairing the Ruins

Author: Douglas Wilson
Publisher: Canon Press & Book Service
ISBN: 1885767145
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 272

Book Description
Repairing the Ruins is a collection of essays about classical education.

Christianity and Hellenism in the Fifth-century Greek East

Author: Yannis Papadogiannakis
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674060678
Category : Apologetics
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
This book--the first full-length study of Theodoret's Therapeutic for Hellenic Maladies--examines Theodoret's arguments against Greek religion, philosophy, and culture. Its analysis of the interaction between Hellenism and early Christian culture offers insights into the broader late Roman and early Byzantine world in the fifth century.

Raised on Christian Milk

Author: John David Penniman
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300228007
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 349

Book Description
A fascinating new study of the symbolic power of food and its role in forming kinship bonds and religious identity in early Christianity Scholar of religion John Penniman considers the symbolic importance of food in the early Roman world in an engaging and original new study that demonstrates how “eating well” was a pervasive idea that served diverse theories of growth, education, and religious identity. Penniman places early Christian discussion of food in its moral, medical, legal, and social contexts, revealing how nourishment, especially breast milk, was invested with the power to transfer characteristics, improve intellect, and strengthen kinship bonds.