Concordia Theological Monthly
Article Title
Publication Date
10-1-1968
Document Type
Article
Keywords
marriage, roman empire, st. paul, rome, wife, army, children, christian, citizen, hellenistic ideology, citizenship
Submission Type
Bible Study; Lecture; Sermon Prep
Abstract
No one is likely to equal the sensation which Gibbon produced with the 15th and 16th chapters of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, where he viewed the rise of Christianity from the perspective of secular history. While he adhered on the surface to a pious, naive, and conventional veneration of the early church, at the same time he pierced the aura of holiness and taught his readers-in the name of philosophy-to understand religious movements realistically. It is unnecessary for us now to review the human causes which an 18th-century historian found for the success of Christianity.
Disciplines
Religious Thought, Theology and Philosophy of Religion
Scripture References in this Resource (separated by semi-colons)
1 Thessalonians 4:15-17; 1 Corinthians 15:51-54; 1 Corinthians 7:32-33, 35; 1 Corinthians 12:8; Galatians 1:1;
Submission Cost
Free
Submission Audience
Laity; Ministers; Scholars
Recommended Citation
Levin, Saul
(1968)
"St. Paul's Ideology for the Urbanized Roman Empire,"
Concordia Theological Monthly: Vol. 39, Article 60.
Available at:
https://scholar.csl.edu/ctm/vol39/iss1/60
