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Allen Brent
Ignatius of Antioch and the Second Sophistic
A Study of an Early Christian Transformation of Pagan Culture
[Ignatius von Antiochien und die zweite Sophistik. Untersuchung einer frühchristlichen Abwandlung heidnischer Kultur.]
2006. XVI, 377 pages. Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum / Studies and Texts in Antiquity and Christianity
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10.1628/978-3-16-158642-2 Summary
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Ignatius of Antioch was the earliest Christian writer to develop a theology of church order and ministry that bears comparison with what became normative in later Christendom as that of bishops, priests and deacons. Allen Brent has produced a new account of the origin of such a concept of ministerial order in the religious cults and civic institutions of the pagan Greek city-states of Asia Minor in the second sophistic.