The Acts of Thecla and Notions of Gender
A few Mondays ago we completed our analysis of the two major story arcs in the Acts of Thecla. Today we’ll take some time to recap the two previous posts.
The first arc of the Acts of Thecla serves to introduce Paul and Thecla and to begin the critique of the opponents of the writer’s community. [...]
The Opening of 1st Corinthians
The Church at Corinth was all kinds of broken. The had problems over charismatic gifts. They had problems over class divisions. Gender roles split their spirit. And on and on.
But, in light of all of that, look how God lead Paul to open his second letter to the Church there:
I am writing to God’s church [...]
Arc One – Critiquing Roman Gender Roles
Wednesday, we looked at the an overview of the rhetorical effect of the Acts of Thecla to better understand how it functioned in the early Christian mind. Today, we will examine the first arc of gender criticism in detail in the Acts of Thecla.
The narrative structure of the Acts of Thecla consists of two four-part [...]
Devotees of Hagia Thekla
Last Friday, we looked at the physical shrine of Hagia Thekla and what it said about gender roles in early Christianity. Today, I wanna look at the actions and attitudes of the real people who lived and traveled there. We will see that the devotees that worshiped, vistied, and lived at Hagia Thekla were from [...]