Food, Virtue, and the Shaping of Early Christianity

Dana Robinson (Creighton University, Omaha)

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Cambridge University Press
13 August 2020

Religion: general; History of religion; Christian life & practice; Theology; Worship, rites & ceremonies

In this book, Dana Robinson examines the role that food played in the Christianization of daily life in the fourth century CE. Early Christians used the food culture of the Hellenized Mediterranean world to create and debate compelling models of Christian virtue, and to project Christian ideology onto common domestic practices. Combining theoretical approaches from cognitive linguistics and space/place theory, Robinson shows how metaphors for piety, such as health, fruit, and sacrifice, relied on food-related domains of common knowledge (medicine, agriculture, votive ritual), which in turn generated sophisticated and accessible models of lay discipline and moral formation. She also demonstrates that Christian places and landscapes of piety were socially constructed through meals and food production networks that extended far beyond the Eucharist. Food culture, thus, provided a network of metaphorical concepts and spatial practices that allowed the lay faithful to participate in important debates over Christian living and community formation.

By: Dana Robinson (Creighton University Omaha)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 160mm, Width: 230mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 550g
ISBN: 9781108479479
ISBN 10: 1108479472
Pages: 257
Publication Date: 13 August 2020
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Introduction; 2. The medicine moderation: John Chrysostom and the true fast; 3. From dinner theater to domestic church in late antique Antioch; 4. Shenoute's botanical virtues: fruit, labor, and ascetic production; 5. The places of God: festivals, food service, and Christian community; 6. Meals, mouths, and martyrs: Paulinus of Nola and sacrificial spaces; 7. Conclusion.

Dana Robinson earned her Ph.D. in Early Christian Studies at The Catholic University of America.

Reviews for Food, Virtue, and the Shaping of Early Christianity

'I found this an engaging and subtle study with insights on every page. It consists of three case studies that move across the diverse linguistic, geographic and social space that early Christianity occupied.' Nathan Macdonald, The Journal of Ecclesiastical History