Band of Angels: The Forgotten World of Early Christian Women by Kate Cooper, and: Christian Women in the Patristic World: Their Influence, Authority, and Legacy in the Second through Fifth Centuries by Lynn H. Cohick and Amy Brown Hughes (review)

• Autores: Kate Wilkinson
• Localización: Journal of early Christian studies: Journal of the North American Patristic Society, ISSN 1067-6341, Nº. 3, 2019, págs. 491-495
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Cohick and Hughes both work at major Evangelical colleges in the United States and published with Baker Academic, the academic imprint of Baker Publishing group, an American press that explicitly serves an Evangelical readership. In the notes to these chapters, the author stresses that she is approaching the New Testament material as a historian of the ancient world, not as a theologian or New Testament scholar. Perhaps an examination of women's roles in the New Testament is automatically theological and political in Evangelical contexts in ways that the authors did not want the book to be. Rather than discussing the martyrs of Lyons and Vienne in the context of the Great Persecution, the authors focus on Eusebius's narrative as part of a larger project of communal remembrance and identity formation in the face of a massive political shift.