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Time of Troubles

A New Economic Framework for Early Christianity
  • ISBN-13: 9781506406312
  • Publisher: 1517 MEDIA
    Imprint: FORTRESS PRESS
  • By Roland Boer, By Christina Petterson
  • Price: AUD $84.99
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  • Local release date: 01/05/2017
  • Format: Paperback (229.00mm X 152.00mm) 252 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: The Early Church [HRCC1]
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Economic realities have been increasingly at the center of discussion of the New Testament and early church. Studies have tended to be either apologetic in tone, or haphazard with regard to economic theory, or both--either imagining the ancients as involved in "primitive" economic relationships, or else projecting the modern capitalist preoccupation with markets and the enterprising individual back onto first-century realities. Boer and Petterson blaze a new trail, relying on the expansive work on the Roman economy of G. E. M. de Ste. Croi and on the theoretical framework of the Regulation school. Theoretically flexible and responsive to historical data, Regulation theory gives appropriate regard to the centrality of agriculture in the ancient world and finds economic instability to be the norm, except for brief episodes of imposed stability. Boer and Petterson find the Roman world in crisis as slavery expands, transforming the agricultural economy so that slave estates could supply the needs of the polis. Successive chapters describe aspects of the economic crisis in the first century and turn at last to understand the ideological role played by nascent Christianity.
Roland Boer is Xin Ao Professor of Literature at Renmin University of China, and research professor at the University of Newcastle, Australia, and authored numerous books.Christina Petterson is a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Newcastle. Together they authored Idols of Nations: Biblical Myth at the Origins of Capitalism.
PrefaceIntroduction1. Economic Theory2. Out in the Wilds3. Re-producing Space: Polis-Chora and Tenure4. The Slave Relation5. Regimes, or, Dealing with Resistance6. Christianity as a Mode of Regulation7. ConclusionBibliographyIndex
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