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Caesar and the Lamb Early Christian Attitudes on War and Military Service

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ISBN-10: 1608992535

ISBN-13: 9781608992539

Edition: N/A

Authors: George Kalantzis

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Through the available patristic writings Caesar and the Lamb focuses on the attitudes of the earliest Christians on war and military service. Kalantzis not only provides the reader with many new translations of pre-Constantinian texts, he also tells the story of the struggle of the earliest Church, the communities of Christ at the margins of power and society, to bear witness to the nations that enveloped them as they transformed the dominant narratives of citizenship, loyalty, freedom, power, and control. Although Kalantzis examines writings on war and military service in the first three centuries of the Christian Church in an organized manner, the ways earliest Christians thought of…    
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Book details

List price: $31.00
Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
Publication date: 9/24/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 246
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.49" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

George Kalantzis (Ph.D., Northwestern University) is associate professor of theology and director of The Wheaton Center for Early Christian Studies at Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois. His research and writing interests focus on the dynamic relationship between the written documents and their interpretation in early Christianity, paying particular attention to the development of christological and trinitarian thought, as well as the interplay of classical Greco-Roman and early Christian philosophical understandings of anthropology and biblical hermeneutics.nbsp;He is the author of Caesar and the Lamb: Early Christian Attitudes on War and Military Service,nbsp;Theodore of Mopsuestia:…