Ignatius and Concord : The background and use of the language of Concord in the letters of Ignatius of Antioch / John-Paul Lotz.

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

From the past to the present : the enigma of Ignatius - Review of the ignatian problem - Recent critiques : Hubner 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.