Stanley K Stowers
Biographic Data
| ID | 9191876 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stanley K Stowers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stanley K |
| FAMILY NAME | Stowers |
| SIGNATURE | STOWERS S K |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Christian Beginnings
Instead of treating Christianity as continuing an utterly unique Judaism alien to Mediterranean religion, the book argues for a pervasive religious dynamic based on three modes; the religion of everyday social exchange, civic religion and the religion of freelance literate experts. These social kinds that cut across ethnically defined cultures such as Judean, Greek and Roman open a window onto a new way of reading the earliest Christian literatur…
Why Expert versus Nonexpert Is Not Elite versus Popular Religion
A Cult from Philadelphia
The moral instructions together with the provision that the participants include men and women, slave and free are the features that have drawn so much attention and that have been seen as departures from earlier Greek religion and precursors of Christianity. The oikos consisted of the human and nonhuman property that belonged to the kurios. It was simultaneously a social group with a few similarities to the modem family and a highly organized co…
Diatribe
Diatribe had several technical senses in antiquity. It was used for the teaching activity of philosophers and sophists. In this sense it can be translated as “conversations,” “lecture,” “a class,” or “seminar.” Plato used the word for Socrates’ teaching by informal conversation (Ap. 37c–d; Grg. 484e
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Diatribe
Diatribe had several technical senses in antiquity. It was used for the teaching activity of philosophers and sophists. In this sense it can be translated as “conversations,” “lecture,” “a class,” or “seminar.” Plato used the word for Socrates’ teaching by informal conversation (Ap. 37c–d; Grg. 484e
A Cult from Philadelphia
The moral instructions together with the provision that the participants include men and women, slave and free are the features that have drawn so much attention and that have been seen as departures from earlier Greek religion and precursors of Christianity. The oikos consisted of the human and nonhuman property that belonged to the kurios. It was simultaneously a social group with a few similarities to the modem family and a highly organized co…
Why Expert versus Nonexpert Is Not Elite versus Popular Religion
Christian Beginnings
Instead of treating Christianity as continuing an utterly unique Judaism alien to Mediterranean religion, the book argues for a pervasive religious dynamic based on three modes; the religion of everyday social exchange, civic religion and the religion of freelance literate experts. These social kinds that cut across ethnically defined cultures such as Judean, Greek and Roman open a window onto a new way of reading the earliest Christian literatur…
Philosophy (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Ancient history (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Biblical Studies and Interpretation (1 work) · Christianity (1 work) · Christianity (1 work) · Christianity (1 work) · Classical Antiquity Studies (1 work) · Classics (1 work)