Sacred Scripture and Secular Struggles

Twelve leading scholars have collaborated on this unique volume, bringing their biblical and patristic expertise together to show how the first followers of Jesus used their own canonical scriptures to address concerns central to life in the Roman Empire. Sacred Scripture and Secular Struggles offers an overview of how early Christians approached and appropriated biblical texts in addressing wider societal issues of imperial power, slavery, the use of wealth, suicide and other fundamental issues brought about by the convergence of empire and ecclesia.

Fr. David Vincent Meconi, S.J., D.Phil. (Oxon.) is an associate professor of patristic theology at Saint Louis University. He most recently published The One Christ: St. Augustine’s Theology of Deification (Catholic University of America, 2013), and co-edited, along with Eleonore Stump, the Cambridge Companion to Augustine (Cambridge University Press, 2014)