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Pagans and Christians in the City
Author | : Steven D. Smith |
Publsiher | : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Total Pages | : 405 |
Release | : 2018-11-15 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781467451482 |
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Traditionalist Christians who oppose same-sex marriage and other cultural developments in the United States wonder why they are being forced to bracket their beliefs in order to participate in public life. This situation is not new, says Steven D. Smith: Christians two thousand years ago faced very similar challenges. Picking up poet T. S. Eliot’s World War II–era thesis that the future of the West would be determined by a contest between Christianity and “modern paganism,” Smith argues in this book that today’s culture wars can be seen as a reprise of the basic antagonism that pitted pagans against Christians in the Roman Empire. Smith’s Pagans and Christians in the City looks at that historical conflict and explores how the same competing ideas continue to clash today. All of us, Smith shows, have much to learn by observing how patterns from ancient history are reemerging in today’s most controversial issues.
Between Pagan and Christian
Author | : Christopher P. Jones |
Publsiher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 223 |
Release | : 2014-03-10 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780674369528 |
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Who and what was pagan depended on the outlook of the observer, as Christopher Jones shows in this fresh and penetrating analysis. Treating paganism as a historical construct rather than a fixed entity, Between Christian and Pagan uncovers the fluid ideas, rituals, and beliefs that Christians and pagans shared in Late Antiquity.
On Pagans Jews and Christians
Author | : Arnaldo Momigliano |
Publsiher | : Wesleyan University Press |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 1987-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0819562181 |
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An analysis of the relationships between pagan Greece, imperial Rome, Judaism, and Christianity.
Pagans and Christians in Late Antique Rome
Author | : Michele Renee Salzman,Marianne Sághy,Rita Lizzi Testa |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 439 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781107110304 |
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This book sheds new light on the religious and consequently social changes taking place in late antique Rome. The essays in this volume argue that the once-dominant notion of pagan-Christian religious conflict cannot fully explain the texts and artifacts, as well as the social, religious, and political realities of late antique Rome. Together, the essays demonstrate that the fourth-century city was a more fluid, vibrant, and complex place than was previously thought. Competition between diverse groups in Roman society - be it pagans with Christians, Christians with Christians, or pagans with pagans - did create tensions and hostility, but it also allowed for coexistence and reduced the likelihood of overt violent, physical conflict. Competition and coexistence, along with conflict, emerge as still central paradigms for those who seek to understand the transformations of Rome from the age of Constantine through the early fifth century.
The Last Pagans of Rome
Author | : Alan Cameron |
Publsiher | : OUP USA |
Total Pages | : 891 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780199747276 |
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In a detailed analysis of the visual and textual evidence, this book disputes the widely held view that the late fourth century saw a vigorous and determined "pagan reaction" to the take-over of the Roman world by Christianity, at both the political and cultural level.
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.
Pagan City and Christian Capital
Author | : John Curran |
Publsiher | : Clarendon Press |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 2002-06-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780191581977 |
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The critical century between the arrival of Constantine and the advance of Alaric in the early fifth century witnessed dramatic changes in the city of Rome. In this book Dr Curran has broken away from the usual notions of religious conflict between Christians and pagans, to focus on a number of approaches to the Christianization of Rome. He surveys the laws and political considerations which governed the building policy of Constantine and his successors, the effect of papal building and commemorative constructions on Roman topography, the continuing ambivalence of the Roman festal calendar, and the conflict between Christians over asceticism and 'real' Christianity. Thus using analytical, literary, and legal evidence Dr Curran explains the way in which the landscape, civic life, and moral values of Rome were transformed by complex and sometimes paradoxical forces, laying the foundation for the capital of medieval Christendom. Through a study of Rome as a city Dr Curran explores the rise of Christianity and the decline of paganism in the later Roman empire.
Pagan and Christian Rome
Author | : Rodolfo Amedeo Lanciani |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 1892 |
Genre | : Art, Roman |
ISBN | : UOM:39015014676590 |
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