Ignatius and Concord [electronic resource] : the background and use of the language of Concord in the letters of Ignatius of Antioch / John-Paul Lotz.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-241) and index.

From the past to the present : the enigma of Ignatius -- Review of the ignatian problem -- Recent critiques : Hübner and Lechner -- Homonoia and the Flavians -- Overview and method -- Homonoia and Concordia : from its origins to the principate -- Origins of Homonoia -- Homonoia and hellenism -- Concordia in Rome to the end of the republic -- Concordia and Homonoia the principate -- Conflict and Concord : succeeding the reigns of Nero and Domitian -- Imperial power and provincial Concord : the imperial cult and the Homonoia-coins of the Greek East -- The imperial cult and Homonoia in the Greek East -- Coins and conflict : the imperial cult and Homonoia-coins -- Images and metaphors of the imperial cult in Ignatius -- Ignatius and the Homonoia-coins : ign. magn. 5-6 -- The literary context of Homonia in the second sophistic and related literature -- The second sophistic and Homonoia : the golden past of a silver present -- Dio chrysostom and the politics of Homonoia -- Aelius Aristides and the discord of the cities -- Ignatian Homonoia and imperial power -- Homonoia in the literature of early Judaism : Philo, Josephus and 4 Maccabees -- The use of Homonoia by Philo of Alexandria -- Josephus, the Flavians, and Homonoia -- Homonoia and 4 Maccabees -- Ignatius letters and 4 Maccabees -- Homonoia in early Christian literature : Paul and 1 Clement -- Deliberative rhetoric and the Concord-speech in antiquity -- Corinthians 1:4 : deliberative rhetoric urging Concord -- The Concord-speech and 1 Corinthians -- Homonoia and 1 Clement -- Clement's uses of Homonoia -- Ignatius' Epistle to the Philadelphians : a deliberative letter urging Concord -- Homonoia in Ignatius of Antioch and his theological and historical contexts -- Homonoia in the letters of Ignatius of Antioch -- Ignatius' Epistle to the Ephesians -- Ignatius' Epistle to the Magnesians -- Ignatius' Epistle to the Trallians -- Ignatius' Epistle to the Philadelphians -- Ignatius and the unity of God -- Ignatius and the 'peace' in Syria.

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