Tag: patronage pyramid

Household: Reviewing the Big Picture (Part 2)

Sep 7, 2007

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by

mwkruse

in Culture, History, Series: Household of God, Sociology, Theology

Jesus and the New Testament leaders needed ways to express metaphorically the ethos of God's new community. Family and household became dominant metaphors. There were instances of the household image in the Old Testament but nothing like the rich imagery we see in the New Testament. Yet the Jesus movement was not the only one…
Household: The Household of Caesar (Part 2)

May 31, 2007

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by

mwkruse

in Culture, History, Religion, Series: Household of God, Sociology, Theology

So how did the household of Caesar work? In the era of the Roman Republic, there was a degree of local autonomy in the provinces. Governors (proconsuls) had considerable freedom so long as taxes were paid and they suppressed insurrections. There was no fixed Roman bureaucracy in the various regions. When a governor left, he…