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 [...]
Overview of the Acts of Thecla
Monday we finished looking at the Thecla Cult in early Christianity. Today we will take stock of the actual text itself before looking at the tides of rhetoric it employed.
The textual tradition of the Acts of Thecla effectively co-opted and modified established patterns rhetoric for its own ends. We will explore one of these pre-existing [...]
The Influence of Thecla in Popular Christian Thought
In my previous post I introduced us to the Acts of Thecla and suggested that it played a powerful role in early popular Christian thought. Next, I wanna talk about the devotion that sprang up around this figure. Today, we will talk a bit about the material culture that we have from the Thecla devotion [...]