Location	Call Number	Status
G/F Collection	BR 170 .W56	Available

Table of Contents

• The all-pervasive and inescapable imperial cultic phenomena
• Festivities, holidays, new honours and Golden Ages
• Honours to, for and by the caesars and reciprocal benefits
• Imperial endorsement of divine titles and 'declining' new temples
• Adopt, adapt, abstain : Jewish responses to divine honours
• The admission of new gods to Athens : Rome's and Paul's
• Promoting cultic honours in Achaea and exemption for Christians
• New imperial honours : some Corinthians Christians compromise
• Avoiding divine honours : some Galatian Christians' strategy
• Confrontation for Thessalonian Christians and the most divine Caesar
• Impending exile for Christians in Hebrews
• Conformity and commerce or capital punishment : new honours for caesar.

Notes

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-323) and index.

Subjects

• Christianity and politics--History--Early church, ca. 30- 600.
• Christians--Political activity--Rome
• Church and state--Rome
• Church history--Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.

Author

• Winter, Bruce W.

Additional Title

• Divine honours for the Caesars

Publisher

• William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, [2015]

Call Number

• BR 170 .W56

ISBN

• 0802872573 (pbk)
• 9780802872579 (pbk)

Content Type

• text

Carrier Type

• volume

Media Type

• unmediated

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• https://cms.trccloud.hk/opac/bib/AOVk