Between Pagan And Christian
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Between Pagan And Christian
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Author : Christopher P. Jones
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2014-03-31
Between Pagan And Christian written by Christopher P. Jones and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-31 with Religion categories.
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.
Pagan And Christian In An Age Of Anxiety
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Author : E. R. Dodds
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1965
Pagan And Christian In An Age Of Anxiety written by E. R. Dodds and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1965 with History categories.
Interest in the world of Late Antiquity is currently undergoing a significant revival, and in this provocative book, now reissued in paperback, E. R. Dodds anticipated some of the themes now engaging scholars. There is abundant material for the study of religious experience in late antiquity, and through it Professor Dodds examines, from a sociological and psychological standpoint, the personal religious attitudes and experiences common to pagans and Christians in the period between Marcus Aurelius and Constantine. He looks first at general attitudes to the world and the human condition before turning to specific types of human experience. World-hatred and asceticism, dreams and states of possession, and pagan and Christian mysticism are all discussed. Finally Dodds considers both pagan views of Christianity and Christian views of paganism as they emerge in the literature of the time. Although primarily written for social and religious historians, this study will also appeal to all those interested in the ancient world and its thought.
Pagans And Christians In The Late Roman Empire
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Author : Marianne Saghy
language : en
Publisher: Central European University Press
Release Date : 2018-02-05
Pagans And Christians In The Late Roman Empire written by Marianne Saghy and has been published by Central European University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-05 with History categories.
Do the terms ?pagan? and ?Christian,? ?transition from paganism to Christianity? still hold as explanatory devices to apply to the political, religious and cultural transformation experienced Empire-wise? Revisiting ?pagans? and ?Christians? in Late Antiquity has been a fertile site of scholarship in recent years: the paradigm shift in the interpretation of the relations between ?pagans? and ?Christians? replaced the old ?conflict model? with a subtler, complex approach and triggered the upsurge of new explanatory models such as multiculturalism, cohabitation, cooperation, identity, or group cohesion. This collection of essays, inscribes itself into the revisionist discussion of pagan-Christian relations over a broad territory and time-span, the Roman Empire from the fourth to the eighth century. A set of papers argues that if ?paganism? had never been fully extirpated or denied by the multiethnic educated elite that managed the Roman Empire, ?Christianity? came to be presented by the same elite as providing a way for a wider group of people to combine true philosophy and right religion. The speed with which this happened is just as remarkable as the long persistence of paganism after the sea-change of the fourth century that made Christianity the official religion of the State. For a long time afterwards, ?pagans? and ?Christians? lived ?in between? polytheistic and monotheist traditions and disputed Classical and non-Classical legacies. ÿ
Pagans And Christians In The Roman Empire
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Author : Peter Brown
language : en
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
Release Date : 2011
Pagans And Christians In The Roman Empire written by Peter Brown and has been published by LIT Verlag Münster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with History categories.
Scholars of the last generation devoted much attention to Late Antiquity: to its institutions, economy, social relationships, culture. Nevertheless, it was thanks to Arnaldo Momigliano that not inferior consideration has been given to religion as an important factor of transformation and development. Fifthy years after the publication of his The Conflict between Paganism and Christianity (Oxford in 1963), a group of scholars wanted to reflect on the relationships between Pagans and Christians, in order to measure how much his legacy has been developed by the contemporary research.
Pagans And Christians In The City
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Author : Steven D. Smith
language : en
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Release Date : 2018-11-15
Pagans And Christians In The City written by Steven D. Smith and has been published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-15 with Religion categories.
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.
The Conflict Between Paganism And Christianity In The Fourth Century
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Author : Arnaldo Momigliano
language : en
Publisher: Oxford, Clarendon P
Release Date : 1963
The Conflict Between Paganism And Christianity In The Fourth Century written by Arnaldo Momigliano and has been published by Oxford, Clarendon P this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1963 with Christianity and other religions categories.
The Barbarian Conversion
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Author : Richard A. Fletcher
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1999
The Barbarian Conversion written by Richard A. Fletcher and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with History categories.
"An investigation of the process by which large parts of Europe accepted the Christian faith between the fourth and the fourteenth centuries and of some of the cultural consequences that flowed therefrom." In a work of splendid scholarship that reflects both a firm mastery of difficult sources and a keen intuition, one of Britain's foremost medievalists tells the story of the Christianization of Europe. It is a very large story, for conversion encompassed much more than religious belief. With it came enormous cultural change: Latin literacy and books, Roman notions of law and property, and the concept of town life, as well as new tastes in food, drink, and dress. Whether from faith or by force, from self-interest or by revelation, conversion had an immense impact that is with us even today.
Paganism Surviving In Christianity
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Author : Abram Herbert Lewis
language : en
Publisher: DigiCat
Release Date : 2022-09-04
Paganism Surviving In Christianity written by Abram Herbert Lewis and has been published by DigiCat this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-04 with Fiction categories.
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Paganism Surviving in Christianity" by Abram Herbert Lewis. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Pagans And Christians
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Author : Robin Lane Fox
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Release Date : 1988
Pagans And Christians written by Robin Lane Fox and has been published by HarperCollins Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with History categories.
The author recreates the world from the second to the fourth century A.D., when the gods of Olympus lost their dominion, and Christianity, with the conversion of Constantine, triumphed in the Mediterranean world.
Pagan And Christian Creeds Their Origin And Meaning
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Author : Edward Carpenter
language : en
Publisher: Good Press
Release Date : 2019-11-20
Pagan And Christian Creeds Their Origin And Meaning written by Edward Carpenter and has been published by Good Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-20 with Religion categories.
This groundbreaking work delves into the depths of religious history, uncovering the very origins of Christian beliefs. The author embarks on a journey to unravel the mysteries of the past, revealing a surprising evolutionary sequence that stretches back centuries before the birth of Christianity. With a systematic and logical approach, the author uncovers common themes between Christianity and ancient Pagan religions, tracing the roots of many Christian religious concepts to paganistic practices.