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Early Christians Adapting to the Roman Empire: Mutual Recognition

Name: Early Christians Adapting to the Roman Empire: Mutual Recognition
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Author: Niko Huttunen
ISBN: 9789004426153

by Niko Huttunen

Hardback
292 pages
Publisher: Brill
15.8 x 23.7 x 2.3 cm

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For history lovers and students of the Early Church

Examines the positive ties between faith and Rome

Helps you rethink the early Christian experience

Challenge your assumptions about early Christian history with this fresh look at faith in the Roman Empire.

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In Early Christians Adapting to the Roman Empire: Mutual Recognition Niko Huttunen challenges the interpretation of early Christian texts as anti-imperial documents. He presents examples of the positive relationship between early Christians and the Roman society. With the concept of "recognition" Huttunen describes a situation in which the parties can come to terms with each other without full agreement. Huttunen provides examples of non-Christian philosophers recognizing early Christians. He claims that recognition was a response to Christians who presented themselves as philosophers. Huttunen reads Romans 13 as a part of the ancient tradition of the law of the stronger. His pioneering study on early Christian soldiers uncovers the practical dimension of recognizing the empire.