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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.
Battling the Gods
Author | : Tim Whitmarsh |
Publsiher | : Faber & Faber |
Total Pages | : 213 |
Release | : 2016-02-02 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780571279326 |
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How new is atheism? In Battling the Gods, Tim Whitmarsh journeys into the ancient Mediterranean to recover the stories of those who first refused the divinities. Long before the Enlightenment sowed the seeds of disbelief in a deeply Christian Europe, atheism was a matter of serious public debate in the Greek world. But history is written by those who prevail, and the Age of Faith mostly suppressed the lively free-thinking voices of antiquity. Tim Whitmarsh brings to life the fascinating ideas of Diagoras of Melos, perhaps the first self-professed atheist; Democritus, the first materialist; and Epicurus and his followers. He shows how the early Christians came to define themselves against atheism, and so suppress the philosophy of disbelief. Battling the Gods is the first book on the origins of the secular values at the heart of the modern state. Authoritative and bold, provocative and humane, it reveals how atheism and doubt, far from being modern phenomena, have intrigued the human imagination for thousands of years.
The Scriptural Universe of Ancient Christianity
Author | : Guy G. Stroumsa |
Publsiher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2016-11-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780674545137 |
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Perhaps more than any other cause, the passage of texts from scroll to codex in late antiquity converted the Roman Empire from paganism to Christianity and enabled the worldwide spread of Christian faith. Guy Stroumsa describes how canonical scripture was established and how its interpretation replaced blood sacrifice in religious ritual.
Teachers and Texts in the Ancient World
Author | : H. Greg Snyder |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 2002-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781134603374 |
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A comprehensive and accessible survey of religious and philosophical teaching and classroom practices in the ancient world.
The Pagan Background of Early Christianity
Author | : William Reginald Halliday |
Publsiher | : Health Research Books |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 1925 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0787304166 |
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1925 Contents: Preface; Introductory; Administration, Municipalities, Guilds; Communications; society and Social Ethics; Eastern and Western Elements in Graeco-Roman Civilisation; the Decline of Rationalism; Union with God and the Immortality of.
The Ancient World and Christianity
Author | : Edmond de Pressensé |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 518 |
Release | : 1888 |
Genre | : Christianity and other religions |
ISBN | : UCAL:$B685526 |
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Religious Violence in the Ancient World
Author | : Jitse H. F. Dijkstra,Christian R. Raschle |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 447 |
Release | : 2020-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781108494908 |
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A comparative examination and interpretation of religious violence in the Graeco-Roman world and Late Antiquity.
Christianity Western Thought Faith reason in the 19th century
Author | : Colin Brown,Steve Wilkens,Alan G. Padgett |
Publsiher | : InterVarsity Press |
Total Pages | : 442 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0830817530 |
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In this much-anticipated sequel to Colin Brown's Christianity and Western Thought, Volume 1, Steve Wilkens and Alan Padgett follow Christianity and philosophy's interaction through the monumental changes of the nineteenth century.