An Ecstasy of Folly <subTitle>Prophecy and Authority in Early Christianity</subTitle> </titleInfo> <titleInfo> <title/> </titleInfo> <name type="personal"> <namePart>Nasrallah, Laura Salah</namePart> <role> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm> </role> </name> <name type="personal"> <namePart/> <namePart type="date">1969-</namePart> <role> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm> </role> </name> <name type="personal"> <namePart/> <role> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm> </role> <role> <roleTerm type="text">Author</roleTerm> </role> </name> <typeOfResource>text</typeOfResource> <originInfo> <place> <placeTerm type="code" authority="marccountry">4:0</placeTerm> </place> <place> <placeTerm type="text">U.S.A</placeTerm> </place> <publisher>Harvard University Press</publisher> <dateIssued>2003</dateIssued> <issuance>monographic</issuance> </originInfo> <language> <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm> </language> <physicalDescription> <extent>225tr.</extent> <extent>paperback, illustrations</extent> <extent>22 cm</extent> </physicalDescription> <abstract>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.</abstract> <note type="statement of responsibility">Laura Salah Nasrallah</note> <subject> <topic>Christian Theology</topic> </subject> <subject> <topic>Prophecy -- Christianity -- History of doctrines -- Early church, ca 30-600</topic> </subject> <classification authority="ddc">231.745</classification> <classification authority="ddc">N264-L38</classification> <identifier type="isbn">9780674012288, 0674012283</identifier> <identifier type="uri">https://data.thuviencodoc.org/books/11054/an-ecstacy.jpg</identifier> <location> <url displayLabel="Cover Image">https://data.thuviencodoc.org/books/11054/an-ecstacy.jpg</url> </location> <recordInfo> <recordContentSource authority="marcorg"/> <recordCreationDate encoding="marc">2023-0</recordCreationDate> <recordChangeDate encoding="iso8601">20260119070953.0</recordChangeDate> </recordInfo> </mods>