Resumen de Christianizing Asia Minor: Conversion, Communities, and Social Change in the Pre-Constantinian Era by Paul McKechnie (review)
Integrating the first Christian epitaphs from Temenothyrae into Montanist evidence (132–38) may not convince everyone: the “presbytera” mentioned on one of them could even have belonged to a Christian movement opposing to the Montanists (S. Mitchell in P. Thonemann, ed., Roman Phrygia [Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013], 168–97; challenged by McKechnie,144–46). Supplementing Paul Trebilco’s important paper (J. M. G. Barclay, ed., Negotiating Diaspora [London: T&T Clark, 2004], 66–88), McKechnie’s chapter advances the discussion of the “Eumeneian formula” at the fringes of early Christianity during the times of persecution. For Laodiceia Katakekaumene, treated by McKechnie on a few pages, one can find an insightful discussion in C. Breytenbach and C. Zimmermann’s magisterial book, Early Christianity in Lycaonia and Adjacent Areas (Leiden: Brill, 2017); they confirm the influence of Novatian or ascetic groups among the Christians in this region.
