The Urban World and the First Christians

by Steve Walton (Editor), David W. J. Gill (Editor), Paul Trebilco (Editor)

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In the tradition of The First Urban Christians by Wayne Meeks, this book explores the relationship between the earliest Christians and the city environment. Experts in classics, early Christianity, and human geography analyze the growth, development, and self-understanding of the early Christian movement in urban settings.

The book's contributors first look at how the urban physical, cultural, and social environments of the ancient Mediterranean basin affected the ways in which early Christianity progressed. They then turn to how the earliest Christians thought and theologized in their engagement with cities. With a rich variety of expertise and scholarship, The Urban World and the First Christians is an important contribution to the understanding of early Christianity.

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In the tradition of The First Urban Christians by Wayne Meeks, this book explores the relationship between the earliest Christians and the city environment. Experts in classics, early Christianity, and human geography analyze the growth, development, and self-understanding of the early Christian movement in urban settings.

The book's contributors first look at how the urban physical, cultural, and social environments of the ancient Mediterranean basin affected the ways in which early Christianity progressed. They then turn to how the earliest Christians thought and theologized in their engagement with cities. With a rich variety of expertise and scholarship, The Urban World and the First Christians is an important contribution to the understanding of early Christianity.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 404
Publisher: Eerdmans
Published: 30 Nov 2017
ISBN 10: 0802874517
ISBN 13: 9780802874511

Media Reviews

Todd D. Still
-- Truett Seminary, Baylor University
What do you get when you bring together human geographers, classicists, and Neutestamentlers to consider how ancient cities impacted the growth and thought of early Christian communities? Taken together, and along with the work of skilled editors and a strong press, you get The Urban World and the First Christians--a fascinating collection of learned, transdisciplinary essays by leading scholars in their respective fields. These substantive studies will shape your thinking about the urban landscape of the earliest Christ-followers and will lead you to think afresh about Christianity, whether ancient or modern, as an urban phenomenon.

Peter Oakes
-- University of Manchester
This book brings together an excellent collection of New Testament experts and historians to make fruitful inroads into a range of significant issues in the study of the urban context of early Christianity. Especially valuable is the juxtaposition of studies of particular cities and texts with studies of the idea of city among early Christians and their contemporaries. This will undoubtedly be a key resource in the field.

Author Bio

Steve Walton is professor in New Testament at St. Mary's University, Twickenham (London). Paul Trebilco is professor of theology and head of theDepartment of Theology and Religious Studies at theUniversity of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. He has alsowritten Jewish Communities in Asia Minor. David W. J. Gill is professor of archaeological heritage and director of heritage futures at the University of Suffolk.