Background
Meeks, Wayne A. was born on January 8, 1932 in Aliceville, Alabama, United States. Son of Benjamin L. and Winnie (Gavin) Meeks.
(By the time Christianity became a political and cultural ...)
By the time Christianity became a political and cultural force in the Roman Empire, it had come to embody a new moral vision. This wise and eloquent book describes the formative years--from the crucifixion of Jesus to the end of the second century of the common era--when Christian beliefs and practices shaped their unique moral order.
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( This volume in the Library of Early Christianity examin...)
This volume in the Library of Early Christianity examines the ethics and morality of the earliest Christians. The Library of Early Christianity is a series of eight outstanding books exploring the Jewish and Greco-Roman contexts in which the New Testament developed.
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(This study draws on the letters of Paul, his associates a...)
This study draws on the letters of Paul, his associates and disciples, to elucidate the world of the early Christians. In this second edition, which includes a new preface, Meeks presents a social history of the early Christian movement discussing such subjects as the urban community, city versus country, women, social stratification, the relationship between Judaism and early Christianity, government, religious ritual and belief systems.
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( In this series of reflections on the mystery of Jesus a...)
In this series of reflections on the mystery of Jesus and the questions that surround him, noted New Testament scholar Wayne Meeks redirects the course of the Jesus debates. Insisting that we cease focusing on who the historical Jesus was and ask instead, who is Christ? Meeks demonstrates with electric and lucid prose that Jesus is not a permanent artifact whose precise nature can be traced back through history but, rather, a figure whose identity continues to emerge as contemporary persons engage him in their daily lives.
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(A central figure in the reconception of early Christian h...)
A central figure in the reconception of early Christian history over the last three decades, Wayne Meeks offers here a selection of his most influential writings on the New Testament and early Christianity. His essays illustrate recent changes in our thinking about the early Christian movement and pose provocative questions regarding the history of this period. Meeks explores a range of topics, from the figure of the androgyne in antiquity to the timeless matter of God's reliability, from Paul's ethical rhetoric to New Testament pictures of Christianity's separation from Jewish communities. Meeks's introduction offers a retrospective on New Testament studies of the past 30 years and explains the intersection of these studies with a variety of exploratory and revisionist movements in the humanities, embracing social theory, history, anthropology and literature. In an epilogue the author reflects on future directions for New Testament scholarship.
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Meeks, Wayne A. was born on January 8, 1932 in Aliceville, Alabama, United States. Son of Benjamin L. and Winnie (Gavin) Meeks.
Bachelor of Science, University Alabama-Tuscaloosa, 1953. Bachelor's Degree, Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, 1956. Master of Arts, Yale University, 1964.
Doctor of Philosophy, Yale University, 1965. Doctor Theologiae honoris causa, University Uppsala, Sweden, 1990.
Instructor religion Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, 1964-1965. Assistant professor religious studies Indiana University, Bloomington, 1966-1968, associate professor, 1968-1969. Associate professor religious studies Yale University, New Haven, 1969-1973, professor religious studies, 1973-1984, Woolsey professor Biblical studies, since 1984, emeritus, since 1999, director division Humanities, 1988-1991.
McDonald visiting distinguished professor Emory University, 2004. Croghan Bicentennial visiting professor Biblical and early christian studies Williams College, 2005. William Allan Neilson professor Smith College, 2010.
(A central figure in the reconception of early Christian h...)
( In this series of reflections on the mystery of Jesus a...)
(By the time Christianity became a political and cultural ...)
(This study draws on the letters of Paul, his associates a...)
( This volume in the Library of Early Christianity examin...)
(The First Urban Christians: The Social World of the Apost...)
(Origins of Christian Morality : The First Two Centuries b...)
(Origins of Christian Morality : The First Two Centuries b...)
Fellow British Academy. Member Society Biblical Literature (president 1985), American Academy Religion (board directors 1974-1977), Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas (editorial board 1979-1982).
Married Martha Evelina Fowler, June 10, 1954 (deceased May 29, 1996). Children: Suzanne, Edith, Ellen. Married Judith Colton, March 18, 2000.