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Thecla, --- Legends. --- Acts of Paul and Thecla.

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"It is an old, yet powerful story. A beautiful young woman falls in love, and try as they might, her disapproving family and friends fail to dissuade her from that love or keep her from her beloved. Persistent and uncompromising, the young woman disrupts the social order of her world, be it that of high school or high society. And by tale's end, either the lover and her beloved are integrated back into society, or a new world order arises (uneasily sometimes) out of the ashes. Perusing through a list of popular young adult novels, teen movies, and ancient romances, one may be struck by the sheer number of stories that follow this arc. The same storyline was also popular in the late antique and medieval periods. A subset of the latter, however, follow a slightly different track. They detail the lives and trials of women who have fallen deeply and irrevocably in love with the transcendental, namely the word of God, and some, even on pain of torture and death, claim Christ as their eternal bridegroom"--

Christian hagiography --- Christian hagiography. --- HISTORY / Ancient / General. --- Hagiographie chrétienne --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique. --- Thecla, --- Thecla, --- Acts of Paul and Thecla. --- Acts of Paul and Thecla.

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Thekla --- Bible. Apocrypha NT --- Thecla, --- Ḟēkla, --- Tecla, --- Thècle, --- Thekla, --- Legends --- History and criticism. --- Acts of Paul and Thecla. --- Acts of Paul --- Bible. --- Paul, Acts of --- Acti Pauli --- Apocryphal Acts of Paul --- Acta Pauli et Theclae --- Actes de Paul et Thècle --- Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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Thecla, --- Legends --- History and criticism --- Acts of Paul and Thecla --- Acts of Paul --- Criticism, interpretation, etc --- 229*42 --- Apocriefe handelingen der apostelen van Andreas, Barnabas, Philippus, Jacobus, Johannes, Matthaeus, Paulus, Petrus, Pilatus, Thomas, Paulus en Thecla, Petrus en Paulus --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- 229*42 Apocriefe handelingen der apostelen van Andreas, Barnabas, Philippus, Jacobus, Johannes, Matthaeus, Paulus, Petrus, Pilatus, Thomas, Paulus en Thecla, Petrus en Paulus --- Ḟēkla, --- Tecla, --- Thècle, --- Thekla, --- Bible. --- Paul, Acts of --- Acti Pauli --- Apocryphal Acts of Paul --- Acta Pauli et Theclae --- Actes de Paul et Thècle --- Thecla, - Saint - Legends - History and criticism - Congresses --- Thecla, - Saint

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The Acts of Paul and Thecla tell of Thecla’s conversion and how she began to proclaim the Christian faith. What early Christian concepts of conversion, discipleship and faith development can be gleaned from this narrative? And what information does the text offer about the successive spread of Christianity in ancient society at the end of the second century? Veronika Niederhofer’s analytic narrative exegesis vouches for the Acts of Paul and Thecla’s historical and theological importance for early Christian piety and its conceptual world. The author shows that the story can be read as a layered drama paradigmatically describing the theme of conversion as a dynamic and multi-stage process in the changing of worlds, and thus demonstrates a new and subtle form of Paul exegesis through the narrative application of canonical texts, and Pauline ideas in particular.

Conversion --- 229*42 --- 229*42 Apocriefe handelingen der apostelen van Andreas, Barnabas, Philippus, Jacobus, Johannes, Matthaeus, Paulus, Petrus, Pilatus, Thomas, Paulus en Thecla, Petrus en Paulus --- Apocriefe handelingen der apostelen van Andreas, Barnabas, Philippus, Jacobus, Johannes, Matthaeus, Paulus, Petrus, Pilatus, Thomas, Paulus en Thecla, Petrus en Paulus --- Christianity&delete& --- History and criticism --- Thecla, --- Ḟēkla, --- Tecla, --- Thècle, --- Thekla, --- Legends --- History and criticism. --- Acts of Paul and Thecla --- Acts of Paul --- Bible. --- Paul, Acts of --- Acti Pauli --- Apocryphal Acts of Paul --- Acta Pauli et Theclae --- Actes de Paul et Thècle --- Criticism and interpretation, etc. --- Religious conversion --- Psychology, Religious --- Proselytizing --- Christianity