The Revolt of the widows: the social world of the apocryphal Acts /
Davies, Stevan L., 1948-
The Revolt of the widows: the social world of the apocryphal Acts / by Stevan L. Davies - Carbondale and Adwardsville : Southern Illinois University Press / c1980. - x, 139 p. ; 23 cm.
Bibliography: p .131-134 Includes index
The magical world view of antiquity
The apostles
Women in the apocryphal acts
Widows and the apocryphal acts
The authorship of the Acts
Women's liberation existed as a Christian movement in the 2nd century. In this first study of the social context that produced the Apocryphal Acts, Stevan L. Davies contends that women wrote the Acts and that the "Acts appear to have been a striving by Christian women for both a mode of self-expression and a way to preach rebellion for the sake of sexual continence." These early rebels--called widows because they left their husbands for the church--refused absolute subservience to the male hierarchy of the church. The three parts of Davies's study include an investigation of the magical world view of late 2nd-century Christendom; a close look at the people the Acts describe as new Christian converts; and a summary and analysis of the nature of the authors of the Acts. These women, like their sisters today, were seeking equal standing with men in the Christian church
0809309580
Bible. N.T. Apocryphal books. Acts--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
BS 2871 / .D38
The Revolt of the widows: the social world of the apocryphal Acts / by Stevan L. Davies - Carbondale and Adwardsville : Southern Illinois University Press / c1980. - x, 139 p. ; 23 cm.
Bibliography: p .131-134 Includes index
The magical world view of antiquity
The apostles
Women in the apocryphal acts
Widows and the apocryphal acts
The authorship of the Acts
Women's liberation existed as a Christian movement in the 2nd century. In this first study of the social context that produced the Apocryphal Acts, Stevan L. Davies contends that women wrote the Acts and that the "Acts appear to have been a striving by Christian women for both a mode of self-expression and a way to preach rebellion for the sake of sexual continence." These early rebels--called widows because they left their husbands for the church--refused absolute subservience to the male hierarchy of the church. The three parts of Davies's study include an investigation of the magical world view of late 2nd-century Christendom; a close look at the people the Acts describe as new Christian converts; and a summary and analysis of the nature of the authors of the Acts. These women, like their sisters today, were seeking equal standing with men in the Christian church
0809309580
Bible. N.T. Apocryphal books. Acts--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
BS 2871 / .D38