Sacred Scripture and Secular Struggles

Sacred Scripture and Secular Struggles shows how early Christians employed biblical texts in addressing wider societal issues of imperial power, slavery, the use of wealth, suicide and other fundamental issues brought about by the convergence of empire and ecclesia.

About the author

Fr. David Vincent Meconi, S.J., D.Phil. (Oxon.) is an associate professor of patristic theology at Saint Louis University. He most recently published The One Christ: St. Augustine's Theology of Deification (Catholic University of America, 2013), and co-edited, along with Eleonore Stump, the Cambridge Companion to Augustine (Cambridge University Press, 2014)

Product details

• Assisted by: David Vincent Meconi S J (Editor), David Vincent Meconi S. J. (Editor)
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.09.2015
• EAN: 9789004302648
• ISBN: 978-90-04-30264-8
• No. of pages: 300
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 236 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 612 g
• Series: Bible in Ancient Christianity
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity