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Birthing Salvation: Gender and Class in Early Christian Childbearing Discourse

by Anna Rebecca Solevag

  • Hardback
  • 302 pages
  • Publisher: Brill
  • 16.1 x 23.9 x 1.8 cm

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For those interested in gender and church history.

Shows how childbearing linked to early salvation.

Understand the social history of the early church.

A insightful study into how gender, class and childbearing shaped early Christian views on salvation.

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In Birthing Salvation Anna Rebecca Solevag explores the theme of childbearing in early Christian discourse. The book maps the importance of women's childbearing in Greco-Roman culture and shows how childbearing discourse interfaces with salvation discourse in three early Christian texts: the Pastoral Epistles, the Acts of Andrew and the Martyrdom of Perpetua and Felicitas. Issues of gender and class are explored through an intersectional analysis. In particular, the institution of slavery, and its implications for ideas about salvation in these texts are drawn out. Birthing Salvation offers fresh interpretations of these texts, including the peculiar statement in 1 Tim 2:15 that women "will be saved through childbearing."
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  • Title

    Birthing Salvation: Gender and Class in Early Christian Childbearing Discourse

  • Author

    Anna Rebecca Solevag

  • Book Format

    Hardcover

  • Publisher

    Brill

  • Published

    August 2013

  • Weight

    591g

  • Page Count

    302

  • Dimensions

    16.1 x 23.9 x 1.8 cm

  • ISBN

    9789004254978

  • ISBN-10

    9004254978

  • Eden Code

    4708874