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Paul and the Ancient Celebrity Circuit
James R. Harrison
其他書名
The Cross and Moral Transformation
出版
Mohr Siebeck
, 2019-11-18
主題
Religion / Christianity / General
ISBN
3161546156
9783161546150
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=V0C-DwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
The modern cult of celebrity, commencing with Garibaldi, Byron and Whitman, is compared to the quest for glory in late republican and early imperial Roman society. Studies based on the documentary and literary sources - including the "great man," the elite quest for civic honour, the Mediterranean athletic ideal, the ethical curriculum of the gymnasium, and local association values - provide the basis for James R. Harrison to assess the ancient preoccupation with fame, hierarchy, and status. He shows how Paul's gospel of the crucified Christ stood out in a culture obsessed with mutual comparison, boasting, and self-sufficiency. It departed from the self-exalting mores of classical culture and enshrined humility and other-centeredness in the western intellectual tradition. As such, the soteriological power of the cross became an impetus not only for individual moral transformation but also for social change.