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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 Pagan Background of Early Christianity
Author | : W. R. Halliday |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 1825 |
Genre | : Christianity |
ISBN | : OCLC:559912442 |
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The Ancient World
Author | : W. R. Haliday |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 1991-06 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 0849043026 |
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Pagan Rome and the Early Christians
Author | : Stephen Benko |
Publsiher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 1986-07-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0253203856 |
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"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].
Pagan Background Or Early Christianity
Author | : W.R. Halliday |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 1999-10 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 1858103622 |
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This is a new release of the original 1925 edition.
Between Pagan and Christian
Author | : Christopher P. Jones |
Publsiher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 127 |
Release | : 2014-03-31 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780674369528 |
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For the early Christians, “pagan” referred to a multitude of unbelievers: Greek and Roman devotees of the Olympian gods, and “barbarians” such as Arabs and Germans with their own array of deities. But while these groups were clearly outsiders or idolaters, 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 Pagan and Christian uncovers the ideas, rituals, and beliefs that Christians and pagans shared in Late Antiquity. While the emperor Constantine’s conversion in 312 was a momentous event in the history of Christianity, the new religion had been gradually forming in the Roman Empire for centuries, as it moved away from its Jewish origins and adapted to the dominant pagan culture. Early Christians drew on pagan practices and claimed important pagans as their harbingers—asserting that Plato, Virgil, and others had glimpsed Christian truths. At the same time, Greeks and Romans had encountered in Judaism observances and beliefs shared by Christians such as the Sabbath and the idea of a single, creator God. Polytheism was the most obvious feature separating paganism and Christianity, but pagans could be monotheists, and Christians could be accused of polytheism and branded as pagans. In the diverse religious communities of the Roman Empire, as Jones makes clear, concepts of divinity, conversion, sacrifice, and prayer were much more fluid than traditional accounts of early Christianity have led us to believe.
Backgrounds of Early Christianity
Author | : Everett Ferguson |
Publsiher | : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Total Pages | : 676 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0802822215 |
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New to this expanded & updated edition are revisions of Ferguson's original material, updated bibliographies, & a fresh dicussion of first century social life, the Dead Sea Scrolls & much else.
The Ancient World
Author | : W. R. Halliday |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 2024 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 0886970733 |
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