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Coming Out Christian in the Roman World
Author | : Douglas Boin |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : RELIGION |
ISBN | : 1620403196 |
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Coming Out Christian in the Roman World
Author | : Douglas Ryan Boin |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2015-03-03 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781620403181 |
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The supposed collapse of Roman civilization is still lamented more than 1,500 years later-and intertwined with this idea is the notion that a fledgling religion, Christianity, went from a persecuted fringe movement to an irresistible force that toppled the empire. The “intolerant zeal” of Christians, wrote Edward Gibbon, swept Rome's old gods away, and with them the structures that sustained Roman society. Not so, argues Douglas Boin. Such tales are simply untrue to history, and ignore the most important fact of all: life in Rome never came to a dramatic stop. Instead, as Boin shows, a small minority movement rose to transform society-politically, religiously, and culturally-but it was a gradual process, one that happened in fits and starts over centuries. Drawing upon a decade of recent studies in history and archaeology, and on his own research, Boin opens up a wholly new window onto a period we thought we knew. His work is the first to describe how Christians navigated the complex world of social identity in terms of “passing” and “coming out.” Many Christians lived in a dynamic middle ground. Their quiet success, as much as the clamor of martyrdom, was a powerful agent for change. With this insightful approach to the story of Christians in the Roman world, Douglas Boin rewrites, and rediscovers, the fascinating early history of a world faith.
In Stone and Story
Author | : Bruce W. Longenecker |
Publsiher | : Baker Academic |
Total Pages | : 471 |
Release | : 2020-02-18 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781493422340 |
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This beautifully designed, full-color textbook introduces the Roman background of the New Testament by immersing students in the life and culture of the thriving first-century towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum, which act as showpieces of the world into which the early Christian movement was spreading. Bruce Longenecker, a leading scholar of the ancient world of the New Testament, discusses first-century artifacts in relation to the life stories of people from the Roman world. The book includes discussion questions, maps, and 175 color photographs. Additional resources are available through Textbook eSources.
Jewish and Christian Communal Identities in the Roman World
Author | : Yair Furstenberg |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 2016-06-21 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9789004321694 |
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The studies in this volume examine the unique communal patterns among Jews and Christians within Roman civic culture and their diverse responses to shared challenges under Imperial rule.
Augustus to Constantine
Author | : Robert McQueen Grant |
Publsiher | : Westminster John Knox Press |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 2004-01-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0664227724 |
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This masterful study of the early centuries of Christianity vividly brings to life the religious, political, and cultural developments through which the faith that began as a sect within Judaism became finally the religion of the Roman empire. First published in 1970, Grant's classic is enhanced with a new foreward by Margaret M. Mitchell, which assesses its importance and puts the reader in touch with the advances of current research.
Christianity and the Roman Empire
Author | : Ralph Martin Novak |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 351 |
Release | : 2001-02-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780567018403 |
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The rise of Christianity during the first four centuries of the common era was the pivotal development in Western history and profoundly influenced the later direction of all world history. Yet, for all that has been written on early Christian history, the primary sources for this history are widely scattered, difficult to find, and generally unknown to lay persons and to historians not specially trained in the field. In Christianity and the Roman Empire Ralph Novak interweaves these primary sources with a narrative text and constructs a single continuous account of these crucial centuries. The primary sources are selected to emphasize the manner in which the government and the people of the Roman Empire perceived Christians socially and politically; the ways in which these perceptions influenced the treatment of Christians within the Roman Empire; and the manner in which Christians established their political and religious dominance of the Roman Empire after Constantine the Great came to power in the early fourth century CE. Ralph Martin Novak holds a Masters Degree in Roman History from the University of Chicago. For: Undergraduates; seminarians; general audiences
Christianity in Ancient Rome
Author | : Bernard Green |
Publsiher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 2010-04-15 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780567032508 |
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The Darkening Age
Author | : Catherine Nixey |
Publsiher | : HarperCollins |
Total Pages | : 373 |
Release | : 2018-04-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780544800939 |
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A New York Times Notable Book, winner of the Jerwood Award from the Royal Society of Literature, a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, and named a Book of the Year by the Telegraph, Spectator, Observer, and BBC History Magazine, this bold new history of the rise of Christianity shows how its radical followers helped to annihilate Greek and Roman civilizations. The Darkening Age is the largely unknown story of how a militant religion deliberately attacked and suppressed the teachings of the Classical world, ushering in centuries of unquestioning adherence to "one true faith." Despite the long-held notion that the early Christians were meek and mild, going to their martyrs' deaths singing hymns of love and praise, the truth, as Catherine Nixey reveals, is very different. Far from being meek and mild, they were violent, ruthless, and fundamentally intolerant. Unlike the polytheistic world, in which the addition of one new religion made no fundamental difference to the old ones, this new ideology stated not only that it was the way, the truth, and the light but that, by extension, every single other way was wrong and had to be destroyed. From the first century to the sixth, those who didn't fall into step with its beliefs were pursued in every possible way: social, legal, financial, and physical. Their altars were upturned and their temples demolished, their statues hacked to pieces, and their priests killed. It was an annihilation. Authoritative, vividly written, and utterly compelling, this is a remarkable debut from a brilliant young historian.