Christianity in Roman Africa: The Development of its Practices and Beliefs

• Autores: Michael. Glerup (res.)
• Localización: Journal of early Christian studies: Journal of the North American Patristic Society, ISSN 1067-6341, Nº. 1, 2017, págs. 151-153
• Idioma: inglés

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  • Christianity in Roman Africa: The Development of its Practices and Beliefs

    J. Patout Burns

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  • Chapters Five through Twelve focus on the practices and social structures for which literary evidence and/or material evidence remains: baptism, Eucharist, penance, orders, marriage and consecrated life, death and burial, the cult of martyrs, and the practices of individual piety. Read side by side with the literary evidence and the cultural and social context, the archeological data sheds light on Christianity in Africa, not simply by serving as an independent witness to the literary evidence, but by demonstrating the range of church types and thereby the variety of Christian expression in Africa sometimes absent from the literary record. Comparing the two articles contributed by David Hunter with Chapter Nine ("Forms of Christian Life: Marriage, Virginity, and Widowhood") reveals that on at least four occasions (455, 456, 469, and 484) source material and research generated from his work was assimilated into the argument of the chapter. [...]drawing upon the diverse competencies of seminar participants, the authors were able to weave together the varied research interests into a cohesive narrative that has the breadth of a multi-authored work and readability of single authored work.