Assembling Early Christianity - Trade, Networks, and the Letters of Dionysios of Corinth

The story of a forgotten early Christian bishop and his emergent network of churches along ancient Mediterranean trade routes.

List of contents

1. Connecting Dionysios: connectivity and early Christian difference; 2. Placing Dionysios: Corinth in the second century; 3. Defining Dionysios: ecclesial politics and second-century Christianity; 4. Debating Dionysios: sexual politics and second-century Christianity; 5. Conjuring crisis: plague, famine, and grief in Corinth; 6. Responding to Rome: patronage, kinship diplomacy, and Dionysios' letter to the Romans; Conclusion: after Dionysios: collecting, linking, and forgetting early Christian networks; Appendix A: the fragments of Dionysios.

About the author

Cavan W. Concannon is Assistant Professor of Religion at the University of Southern California. He is the author of 'When You Were Gentiles': Specters of Ethnicity in Roman Corinth and Paul's Corinthian Correspondence (2014).

Summary

This book introduces Dionysios of Corinth, a forgotten early Christian bishop, and his fragmentary letter collection from the second century. The growth and disappearance, the success and failure, of his network help us to think about the ways that early Christianity spread by way of tenuous and shifting networks across the Mediterranean.

Product details

• Authors: Cavan W Concannon, Cavan W. Concannon, Cavan W. (University of Southern Califo Concannon, Cavan W. (University of Southern California) Concannon, Concannon Cavan W.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2017
• EAN: 9781107194298
• ISBN: 978-1-107-19429-8
• No. of pages: 274
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; RELIGION / Christianity / History, RELIGION / Christianity / General, Christianity, History of Religion, The Early Church