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Author : Bernard Green
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 46,89 MB
Release : 2010-04-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0567032507
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Author : Stephen Benko
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 27,72 MB
Release : 1986-07-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253203854
"In the early Roman empire, Christians were seen by pagans as overthrowers of ancient gods and destroyers of the prevailing social order. Allegations that Christians recognized each other by secret marks, met at night and made love to one another indiscriminately, worshipped the head of an ass and the genitals of their high priests, and ate children were widely believed. In examining these charges and the Christian response to them, Benko has provided a persuasively argued and refreshing, if controversial, perspective on the confrontation of the pagan and early Christian worlds."[book cover].
Author : Niko Huttunen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 39,94 MB
Release : 2020-03-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004428240
In Early Christians Adapting to the Roman Empire: Mutual Recognition Niko Huttunen challenges the interpretation of early Christian texts as anti-imperial documents. He presents examples of the positive relationship between early Christians and the Roman society. With the concept of “recognition” Huttunen describes a situation in which the parties can come to terms with each other without full agreement. Huttunen provides examples of non-Christian philosophers recognizing early Christians. He claims that recognition was a response to Christians who presented themselves as philosophers. Huttunen reads Romans 13 as a part of the ancient tradition of the law of the stronger. His pioneering study on early Christian soldiers uncovers the practical dimension of recognizing the empire.
Author : Henry Donald Maurice Spence-Jones
Publisher :
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 27,94 MB
Release : 1911
Category : Church history
ISBN :
Author : Peter S. Oakes
Publisher : Paternoster
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 13,8 MB
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN :
Six notable scholars illuminate key aspects of Rome and its impact on early Christianity, emphasizing Roman culture, Roman authority, and the Christian community in Rome.
Author : Matilda Webb
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Catacombs
ISBN :
Author : Karl Galinsky
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 46,21 MB
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 0198744765
Memory in Ancient Rome and Early Christianity presents perspectives from an international and interdisciplinary range of contributors on the literature, history, archaeology, and religion of a major world civilization, based on an informed engagement with important concepts and issues in memory studies.
Author : Candida Moss
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 36,61 MB
Release : 2013-03-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0062104543
In The Myth of Persecution, Candida Moss, a leading expert on early Christianity, reveals how the early church exaggerated, invented, and forged stories of Christian martyrs and how the dangerous legacy of a martyrdom complex is employed today to silence dissent and galvanize a new generation of culture warriors. According to cherished church tradition and popular belief, before the Emperor Constantine made Christianity legal in the fourth century, early Christians were systematically persecuted by a brutal Roman Empire intent on their destruction. As the story goes, vast numbers of believers were thrown to the lions, tortured, or burned alive because they refused to renounce Christ. These saints, Christianity's inspirational heroes, are still venerated today. Moss, however, exposes that the "Age of Martyrs" is a fiction—there was no sustained 300-year-long effort by the Romans to persecute Christians. Instead, these stories were pious exaggerations; highly stylized rewritings of Jewish, Greek, and Roman noble death traditions; and even forgeries designed to marginalize heretics, inspire the faithful, and fund churches. The traditional story of persecution is still taught in Sunday school classes, celebrated in sermons, and employed by church leaders, politicians, and media pundits who insist that Christians were—and always will be—persecuted by a hostile, secular world. While violence against Christians does occur in select parts of the world today, the rhetoric of persecution is both misleading and rooted in an inaccurate history of the early church. Moss urges modern Christians to abandon the conspiratorial assumption that the world is out to get Christians and, rather, embrace the consolation, moral instruction, and spiritual guidance that these martyrdom stories provide.
Author : Paul Trebilco
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 851 pages
File Size : 11,46 MB
Release : 2007-10-17
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0802807690
The capital city of the province of Asia in the first century CE, Ephesus played a key role in the development of early Christianity. In this book Paul Trebilco examines the early Christians from Paul to Ignatius, seen in the context of our knowledge of the city as a whole. Drawing on Paul's letters and the Acts of the Apostles, Trebilco looks at the foundations of the church, both before and during the Pauline mission. He shows that in the period from around 80 to 100 CE there were a number of different communities in Ephesus that regarded themselves as Christians -- the Pauline and Johannine groups, Nicolaitans, and others -- testifying to the diversity of that time and place. Including further discussions on the Ephesus addresses of the apostle John and Ignatius, this scholarly study of the early Ephesian Christians and their community is without peer.
Author : Shadi Bartsch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 11,82 MB
Release : 2017-11-09
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1107052203
A lively and accessible guide to the rich literary, philosophical and artistic achievements of the notorious age of Nero.