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Ausgabe:

März/2019

Spalte:

202–203

Kategorie:

Kirchengeschichte: Alte Kirche, Christliche Archäologie

Autor/Hrsg.:

Weiß, Alexander

Titel/Untertitel:

Soziale Elite und Christentum. Studien zu ordo-Angehörigen unter den frühen Christen.

Verlag:

Berlin u. a.: De Gruyter 2015. VIII, 245 S. m. 5 Abb. = Millennium-Studien, 52. Geb. EUR 99,95. ISBN 978-3-11-037380-6.

Rezensent:

John S. Kloppenborg

The »New Consensus« articulated by Wayne Meeks (The First Ur­ban Christians, New Haven 1983) and Abraham Malherbe (Social Aspects of Early Christianity, Baton Rouge 1977) held that at least for the first century, Christ groups included on the one hand, the middle of  Imperial society, but on the other, no aristocrats, no senators, equites, or decurions, and none of the desperately poor, no agricultural slaves and no hired day workers. This »consensus« replaced the older view that the earliest Christians were uniformly poor, a view usually (and wrongly) associated with the name of Adolf Deissmann (at least Deissmann in the later editions of Licht vom Osten), but revived in Justin Meggitt’s Paul, Poverty and Survival, Edinburgh 1998.
Alexander Weiß challenges two aspects ...


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