The Passion of Thecla
The Passion of Thecla

Author: Edward N. Brown

Publisher: Crystal Sea Books

Published: 2020-08-02

Total Pages: 142

ISBN-13: 9781733827188

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Fresh and exciting insights into: The First Female Christian MartyrThe First Female Christian Missionary and EvangelistThe First Christian FeministThe First Christian Hermitess and AsceticThe Teenager who became a Saint"The Passion of Thecla: Faith and Fortitude", by Edward N Brown, is Christian Historical Fiction at its best - easy reading and entertaining, but informative and inspiring!This book is a story that revolves around two characters: a great man who became a legend and a saint, and a great woman who has long lingered in obscurity. The great man is Saint Paul, the Apostle. The setting is his First Missionary Voyage to spread the Gospel to the Gentiles. The year is 47 AD. What happened there stunned the world forever!This is the faith journey of a young girl.A story of passion, courage, and fortitude.Her lifestyle choices would become legendary.Her exploits would become renowned.And she would become a saint in Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Episcopal, and Coptic religious traditions.But her name would fade from history.So who was she? And what happened?So, is it fact or fiction? According to the author, "The story is speculative, but soundly based on the Bible and credible historical records. It may have all happened just like this!"

Thecla and Medieval Sainthood
Thecla and Medieval Sainthood

Author: Ghazzal Dabiri

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2022-05-26

Total Pages: 359

ISBN-13: 131651921X

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Explores Saint Thecla and her story as preeminent models for medieval hagiographers across Eurasia and North Africa.

Thecla and Medieval Sainthood
Thecla and Medieval Sainthood

Author: Ghazzal Dabiri

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2023-12-21

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781009005050

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Saint Thecla was one of the most prominent figures of early Christianity who provided a model of virginity and a role-model for women in the early Church. She was the object of cult and of pilgrimage and her tale in the Acts of Paul and Thecla made a tremendous impact on later hagiographies of both female and male saints. This volume explores this impact on medieval hagiographical texts composed in Armenian, Coptic, Ethiopic, Greek, Irish, Latin, Persian, and Syriac. It investigates how they evoked and/or invoked Thecla and her tale in constructing the lives and story worlds of their chosen saints and offers detailed original readings of the lives of various heroines and heroes. The book adds further depth and nuance to our understanding of Thecla's popularity and the spread of her legend and cult.

Thecla's Devotion
Thecla's Devotion

Author: JD McLarty

Publisher: James Clarke & Company

Published: 2018-08-30

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 022790575X

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Second century apocryphal Christian texts are Christian fiction: they draw on the motifs of contemporary pagan stories of romance, travel and adventure to entertain their readers, but also to explore what it means to be Christian. The Thecla episodein the Apocryphal Acts of Paul recounts the conversion of a young pagan woman, her rejection of marriage, her narrow escapes from martyrdom and the end of her story as an independent, ascetic evangelist. In Thecla's Devotion, J.D. McLarty reads the Thecla episode against a paradigm pagan romance, Callirhoe: for both texts the passions are key to the unfolding of the plot - how are unruly emotions to be managed and controlled? The pagan would answer, 'through reason'. This study uses the portrayal of emotion within character and plot to explore the response of the Thecla episode to this key question for Christian identity formation.

The Life of Thecla
The Life of Thecla

Author: Andrew S. Jacobs

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2024-05-31

Total Pages: 121

ISBN-13: 1666746401

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Thecla was one of the most venerated saints in late antiquity. One of her followers created the Life of Thecla as an act of devotion in the fifth century, rewriting the popular Acts of Thecla and transforming it into the heroic saga of a saint. Replete with long speeches, dramatic flourishes, and literary flamboyance, the Life of Thecla gives modern readers insight into the ways a gender-bending apostolic saint could be reframed and reimagined for later audiences. This first modern English translation of the Life explores its relationship with the earlier Acts as well as its place in fifth-century concerns about miracles, healing, sainthood, and sexuality.

Saint Thecla
Saint Thecla

Author: Rosie Andrious

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2020-09-17

Total Pages: 247

ISBN-13: 0567691799

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This volume questions the prevailing 'female empowering' interpretation of Thecla in the Acts of Paul and Thecla. Rosie Andrious examines the way that Thecla is voyeuristically paraded and subjected to a kind of sado-erotic torture, and demonstrates how this perception clashes with any notion that she is presented as a positive role-model for a woman. Rather, Andrious sets this discourse about female 'self-control' and 'chastity' over against the wider narrative of Christian men struggling against the invasive violence of Rome and suggests that the victimized, voyeuristic female representation of Thecla has very little to do with women and is, rather, a complex literary text that represents a power struggle between men. The ideological function of Thecla is therefore, as a constructed body that transcends its 'natural' feminine weakness. Andrious thus provides an original interpretative framework for understanding Thelca's representation, and suggests a completely new way of seeing the saint.

The Apocryphal New Testament
The Apocryphal New Testament

Author: J. K. Elliott

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2005-10-27

Total Pages: 788

ISBN-13: 9780198261810

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The Apocryphal New Testament includes new translations of the most significant and famous of the non-canonical Christian works. These apocryphal texts reveal the popular legends of Christians after the New Testament era, and throw light on the origins of many later beliefs and practices.

The Christian Invention of Time
The Christian Invention of Time

Author: Simon Goldhill

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2022-02-03

Total Pages: 517

ISBN-13: 1009080830

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Time is integral to human culture. Over the last two centuries people's relationship with time has been transformed through industrialisation, trade and technology. But the first such life-changing transformation – under Christianity's influence – happened in late antiquity. It was then that time began to be conceptualised in new ways, with discussion of eternity, life after death and the end of days. Individuals also began to experience time differently: from the seven-day week to the order of daily prayer and the festal calendar of Christmas and Easter. With trademark flair and versatility, world-renowned classicist Simon Goldhill uncovers this change in thinking. He explores how it took shape in the literary writing of late antiquity and how it resonates even today. His bold new cultural history will appeal to scholars and students of classics, cultural history, literary studies, and early Christianity alike.

The Gendered Palimpsest
The Gendered Palimpsest

Author: Kim Haines-Eitzen

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 0195171292

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The book provides a thorough treatment of the roles of women as authors, scribes, booklenders, and patrons of early Christian literature, and of the ways in which the representation of female figures was contested in the process of copying early Christian texts.