Slaves of God/Christ: narrated total devotion in the apocryphal Acts of Peter
In the Roman Empire, there was a trend to formulate total devotion to a deity as being a slave to a master. My contribution analyses how this relationship is elaborated in the Acts of Peter, a late second-century Christian apocryphal text. As Christianity was still an emerging religion, total devoti...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge
2023
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Religion
Year: 2023, Volume: 53, Issue: 1, Pages: 87-115 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Acts of Peter
/ Simon, Magus ca. 1. Jh.
/ Christian
/ Faith
/ Devotion
/ Radicalism
/ Martyrdom
/ History 100-200
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| IxTheo Classification: | CB Christian life; spirituality CC Christianity and Non-Christian religion; Inter-religious relations HC New Testament KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity |
| Further subjects: | B
Narrative
B Total devotion B Acts of Peter B Martyrdom B Conversion B Emotions |
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