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Christian Responses to Roman Art and Architecture

The Second-century Church Amid the Spaces of Empire

  • Paperback
  • 352 pages
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • 17.8 x 25.2 x 2.3 cm

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For scholars and enthusiasts of early Christian history

Connects early Christian literature with Roman culture

You will gain deep insights into faith and society's interplay

This insightful book explores how early Christians engaged with Roman art and architecture.

Laura Nasrallah argues that early Christian literature addressed to Greeks and Romans is best understood when read in tandem with the archaeological remains of Roman antiquity. She examines second-century Christianity by looking at the world in which Christians 'lived and moved and had their being'. Early Christians were not divorced from the materiality of the world, nor did they always remain distant from the Greek culture of the time or the rhetoric of Roman power. Nasrallah shows how early Christians took up themes of justice, piety and even the question of whether humans could be gods. They did so in the midst of sculptures that conveyed visually that humans could be gods, monumental architecture that made claims about the justice and piety of the Roman imperial family, and ideas of geography that placed Greek or Roman ethnicity at the center of the known world.
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  • Title

    Christian Responses to Roman Art and Architecture

  • Author

    Laura Salah Nasrallah

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Cambridge University Press

  • Published

    August 2011

  • Weight

    613g

  • Page Count

    352

  • Dimensions

    17.8 x 25.2 x 2.3 cm

  • ISBN

    9781107644991

  • ISBN-10

    1107644992

  • Eden Code

    4027482