The seven cities of the apocalypse and Greco-Asian culture /

Worth, Roland H., 1943-

The seven cities of the apocalypse and Greco-Asian culture / [print] Roland H. Worth, Jr. - New York : Paulist Press, (c)1999. - iii, 377 pages ; 23 cm

1. Glorious Ephesus: The City, the History, the Culture -- 2. Glorious Ephesus: Artemis and Her Competitors -- 3. Monotheism in Ephesus -- 4. Rival Smyrna -- 5. Monotheism and Polytheism in Smyrna -- 6. Regal Pergamon: The City's Civic Monuments and Polytheistic Religions -- 7. Regal Pergamon: Divided Christianity and Societal Allusions in John's Mini-Epistle -- 8. Mercantile Thyatira -- 9. Invincible Sardis -- 10. Philadelphia: City of Opportunity -- 11. Undecided Laodicea.



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Seven churches.
Christianity and culture--History--Turkey--Early church, ca. 30-600.

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