RT Book
T1 Assembling early Christianity: trade, networks, and the letters of Dionysios of Corinth
A1 Concannon, Cavan W.
LA English
PP Cambridge
PB Cambridge University Press
YR 2017
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1005464766
AB In this book, Cavan W. Concannon explores the growth and development of Christianity in the second century. He focuses on Dionysios of Corinth, an early Christian bishop who worked to build a network of churches along trade routes in the eastern Mediterranean. Using archaeological evidence, and analysing Dionysios' fragmentary letter collection, Concannon shows how various networks and collectives assembled together, and how various Christianities emerged and coexisted as a result of tenuous and shifting networks. Dionysios' story also overlaps with key early Christian debates, notably issues of celibacy, marriage, re-admission of sinners, Roman persecution, and the economic and political interdependence of churches, which are also explored in this study. Concannon's volume thus offers new insights into a fluid, emergent Christianity at a pivotal moment of its evolution.
NO Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 15 Sep 2017)
CN BR182
SN 9781108155373
K1 Dionysius : Saint, bp. of Corinth : active 2nd century
K1 Dionysius
K1 Church history, Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600
K1 Church History : Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600
K1 Dionysius ; Saint, bp. of Corinth ; active 2nd century
K1 Church history ; Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600
K1 Corinth (Greece) ; Church history
K1 Corinth (Greece) : Church history.
K1 Corinth (Greece) : Church history
DO 10.1017/9781108155373