An Ecstasy of Folly Prophecy and Authority in Early Christianity
Nasrallah, Laura Salah 1969-
An Ecstasy of Folly Prophecy and Authority in Early Christianity Laura Salah Nasrallah - U.S.A. Harvard University Press 2003 - 225tr. paperback, illustrations 22 cm
Who is a true prophet? Who has a real access to divine realms of knowledge? Early Christian communities accused each other's prophets of madness and of making false claims to divine knowledge... This book clarifies how early Christian arguments about rationality, madness, and the role of spiritual gifts in history are attempt to negotiate authority and to define religious identity in the midst of many competing forms of Christianity ... and in the context of the Greco-Roman world, where prophecy, visions, ecstasy, and dreams were the subject of cutting-edge philosophical, medical, and even political debates.
9780674012288, 0674012283
Christian Theology
Prophecy -- Christianity -- History of doctrines -- Early church, ca 30-600
231.745 / N264-L38
An Ecstasy of Folly Prophecy and Authority in Early Christianity Laura Salah Nasrallah - U.S.A. Harvard University Press 2003 - 225tr. paperback, illustrations 22 cm
Who is a true prophet? Who has a real access to divine realms of knowledge? Early Christian communities accused each other's prophets of madness and of making false claims to divine knowledge... This book clarifies how early Christian arguments about rationality, madness, and the role of spiritual gifts in history are attempt to negotiate authority and to define religious identity in the midst of many competing forms of Christianity ... and in the context of the Greco-Roman world, where prophecy, visions, ecstasy, and dreams were the subject of cutting-edge philosophical, medical, and even political debates.
9780674012288, 0674012283
Christian Theology
Prophecy -- Christianity -- History of doctrines -- Early church, ca 30-600
231.745 / N264-L38