Women in the World of the Earliest Christians

Women in the World of the Earliest ChristiansLynn Cohick provides an accurate and fulsome picture of the earliest Christian women by examining a wide variety of first century Jewish and Greco Roman documents that illuminate their lives. She organizes the book around three major spheres of life: family, religious community, and society in general. Cohick shows that although women during this period were active at all levels within their religious communities, their influence was not always

when Israel's Messiah would deliver the nations from sin and death

and exploring the continuing relevance of Romans

classical schools

he demonstrates the diversity of Christian faith around the world

and theological proclamation

church planters

She encourages us to reorient our gaze from diseased cultural forms and fix our eyes instead on works from the historic Christian imaginative tradition that better reflect the love

Further discussion shows how to incorporate these practices in specific mission settings

and strategy

and an accessible bibliography

a Thessalonians expert

He then explores the history of interpretation before discussing how we receive the Bible liturgically