Persecution
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Persecution In The Early Church
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Author : Herbert B. Workman
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2009-04-01
Persecution In The Early Church written by Herbert B. Workman and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-04-01 with Religion categories.
The subject of persecution in the early Church, treated as a whole, has been somewhat neglected by English writers. The legal aspects of the matter, the relations of the Church to the Empire, and the nature of the courts and procedure by which the Christians were condemned have been fully dealt with in the researches of Ramsay, Hardy, and others . . . Persecution also, treated merely from the standpoint of the Church, the experiences of the martyrs, has, of course, never lacked presentation in this country from the days of Foxe onward . . . [A] treatment of the subject as a whole, in its legal, historical, ecclesiastical, and experiential aspects, is what I have attempted in the following pages . . . While I trust that no aspect of the subject has been neglected, special attention has been drawn to those aspects of the inner life of the Church which led to persecution. Contents 1. The Master and His Disciples 2. Casesar or Christ 3. The Causes of Hatred 4. The Great Persecution 5. The Experiences of the Persecuted
Through Many Tribulations
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Author : Scott Cunningham
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 1997-11-01
Through Many Tribulations written by Scott Cunningham and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-11-01 with Religion categories.
This book, the first comprehensive study of persecution in Luke-Acts from a literary and theological perspective, argues that the author uses the theme of persecution in pursuit of his theological agenda. It brings to the surface six theological functions of the persecution theme, which has an important paraenetic and especially apologetic role for Luke's persecuted community. The persecution Luke's readers suffer is evidence that they are legitimate recipients of God's salvific blessings.
Martyrdom And Persecution In The Early Church
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Author : W. H. C. Frend
language : en
Publisher: Oxford, Blackwell
Release Date : 1965
Martyrdom And Persecution In The Early Church written by W. H. C. Frend and has been published by Oxford, Blackwell this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1965 with Church history categories.
A full-scale study in English of the relations between the primitive Church and the Roman Empire has been needed for a long time. Since the turn of the century much new material has come to hand, and new perspectives in the theological and historical study of the period has been opened up. The conflict between Church and Roman Empire in the first two centuries A.D. can now be seen as part of a triangular struggle between the Jews, Christians and the remainder of the Roman world, whose roots go back to the Maccabean revolution against Hellenism in the second century B.C. The author has found evidence for the continuation of the Maccabean spirit in the theology of the Western Church. He has connected the emphasis on the role of the martyr inspired by the Holy Spirit, traceable in Tertullian and his successors in North Africa, with the development of a distinctively Latin eschatology and understanding of the doctrine of the Trinity. He contrasts the survival of apocalyptic in the West with the development of a more optimistic God-Logos theology in the East, where already by the third century A.D. the ideal of the ascetic was superseding that of the martyr. The onset of the persecutions of Decius and Diocletian sharpened the tension between these two ideals of Christian heroism. If the Roman Empire failed to crush the Church, the ultimate legacy of the persecutions is seen to be the permanent division of Christendom into its Eastern and Western halves.
Persecuted
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Author : Paul Marshall
language : en
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Release Date : 2013-03-11
Persecuted written by Paul Marshall and has been published by Thomas Nelson this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-11 with Religion categories.
Christians are the world’s most widely persecuted religious group, according to studies by the Pew Research Center, Newsweek, and the Economist, among others. A woman is caught with a Bible and publicly shot to death. An elderly priest is abducted and never seen again. Three buses full of students and teachers are struck by roadside bombs. These are not casualties of a war. These are Christian believers being persecuted for their faith in the twenty-first century. Many Americans do not understand that Christians today are victims in many parts of the world. Even many Western Christians, who worship and pray without fear of violent repercussions, are unaware that so many followers of Christ live under governments and among people who are often openly hostile to their faith. They think martyrdom became a rarity long ago. Persecuted soundly refutes these assumptions. This book offers a glimpse at the modern-day life of Christians worldwide, recounting the ongoing attacks that rarely make international headlines. As Western Christians pray for the future of Christ’s church, it is vital that they understand a large part of the world’s Christian believers live in danger. Persecuted gives documented accounts of the persecution of Christians in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and former Soviet nations. It contains vivid stories of men and women who suffer abuse because of their faith in Jesus Christ, and tells of their perseverance and courage.. Persecuted is far more than a thorough and moving study of this global pattern of violence—it is a cry for freedom and a call to action.
The Early Christian Persecutions
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Author : Dana Carleton Munro
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1897
The Early Christian Persecutions written by Dana Carleton Munro and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1897 with Church history categories.
A Threat To Public Piety
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Author : Elizabeth DePalma Digeser
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2012-04-15
A Threat To Public Piety written by Elizabeth DePalma Digeser and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-15 with History categories.
In A Threat to Public Piety, Elizabeth DePalma Digeser reexamines the origins of the Great Persecution (AD 303–313), the last eruption of pagan violence against Christians before Constantine enforced the toleration of Christianity within the Empire. Challenging the widely accepted view that the persecution enacted by Emperor Diocletian was largely inevitable, she points out that in the forty years leading up to the Great Persecution Christians lived largely in peace with their fellow Roman citizens. Why, Digeser asks, did pagans and Christians, who had intermingled cordially and productively for decades, become so sharply divided by the turn of the century? Making use of evidence that has only recently been dated to this period, Digeser shows that a falling out between Neoplatonist philosophers, specifically Iamblichus and Porphyry, lit the spark that fueled the Great Persecution. In the aftermath of this falling out, a group of influential pagan priests and philosophers began writing and speaking against Christians, urging them to forsake Jesus-worship and to rejoin traditional cults while Porphyry used his access to Diocletian to advocate persecution of Christians on the grounds that they were a source of impurity and impiety within the empire. The first book to explore in depth the intellectual social milieu of the late third century, A Threat to Public Piety revises our understanding of the period by revealing the extent to which Platonist philosophers (Ammonius, Plotinus, Porphyry, and Iamblichus) and Christian theologians (Origen, Eusebius) came from a common educational tradition, often studying and teaching side by side in heterogeneous groups.
The Politics Of Persecution
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Author : President Mitri Raheb
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-09
The Politics Of Persecution written by President Mitri Raheb and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09 with categories.
Persecution of Christians in the Middle East has been a recurring theme since the middle of the nineteenth century. The topic has experienced a resurgence in the last few years, especially during the Trump era. Middle Eastern Christians are often portrayed as a homogeneous, helpless group ever at the mercy of their Muslim enemies, a situation that only Western powers can remedy. The Politics of Persecution revisits this narrative with a critical eye. Mitri Raheb charts the plight of Christians in the Middle East from the invasion of Napoleon Bonaparte in 1799 to the so-called Arab Spring. The book analyzes the diverse socioeconomic and political factors that led to the diminishing role and numbers of Christians in Palestine, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan during the eras of Ottoman, French, and British Empires, through the eras of independence, Pan-Arabism, and Pan-Islamism, and into the current era of American empire. With an incisive exposé of the politics that lie behind alleged concerns for these persecuted Christians--and how the concept of persecution has been a tool of public diplomacy and international politics--Raheb reveals that Middle Eastern Christians have been repeatedly sacrificed on the altar of Western national interests. The West has been part of the problem for Middle Eastern Christianity and not part of the solution, from the massacre on Mount Lebanon to the rise of ISIS. The Politics of Persecution, written by a well-known Palestinian Christian theologian, provides an insider perspective on this contested region. Middle Eastern Christians survived successive empires by developing great elasticity in adjusting to changing contexts; they learned how to survive atrocities and how to resist creatively while maintaining a dynamic identity. In this light, Raheb casts the history of Middle Eastern Christians not so much as one of persecution but as one of resilience.
Heirs Of Roman Persecution
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Author : Éric Fournier
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-10-10
Heirs Of Roman Persecution written by Éric Fournier and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-10 with History categories.
The subject of this book is the discourse of persecution used by Christians in Late Antiquity (c. 300–700 CE). Through a series of detailed case studies covering the full chronological and geographical span of the period, this book investigates how the conversion of the Roman Empire to Christianity changed the way that Christians and para- Christians perceived the hostile treatments they received, either by fellow Christians or by people of other religions. A closely related second goal of this volume is to encourage scholars to think more precisely about the terminological difficulties related to the study of persecution. Indeed, despite sustained interest in the subject, few scholars have sought to distinguish between such closely related concepts as punishment, coercion, physical violence, and persecution. Often, these terms are used interchangeably. Although there are no easy answers, an emphatic conclusion of the studies assembled in this volume is that “persecution” was a malleable rhetorical label in late antique discourse, whose meaning shifted depending on the viewpoint of the authors who used it. This leads to our third objective: to analyze the role and function played by rhetoric and polemic in late antique claims to be persecuted. Late antique Christian writers who cast their present as a repetition of past persecutions often aimed to attack the legitimacy of the dominant Christian faction through a process of othering. This discourse also expressed a polarizing worldview in order to strengthen the group identity of the writers’ community in the midst of ideological conflicts and to encourage steadfastness against the temptation to collaborate with the other side. Chapters 15 and 16 of this book are freely available as downloadable Open Access PDFs at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
I Am A Christian
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Author : Anthony P. Schiavo, Jr.
language : en
Publisher: Arx Publishing, LLC
Release Date : 2018-09-17
I Am A Christian written by Anthony P. Schiavo, Jr. and has been published by Arx Publishing, LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-17 with History categories.
"Jesus never existed." "The Bible is a book of fairy tales." "Accounts of Christian persecution are fables." Christians of today face ridiculous claims of this type on a regular basis. These charges gain traction in the modern world because the average person has practically no knowledge of the Church's ancient past. I Am A Christian: Authentic Accounts of Christian Martyrdom and Persecution from the Ancient Sources aims to remedy this deficiency. The works collected in this book represent some of the most trustworthy first-hand accounts of the triumphs and travails of the early Church that have survived antiquity. These include several authentic transcripts of Roman legal proceedings against Christians, along with obscure but fascinating historical works that are unfamiliar to even the most informed Christians of today. In several cases, readers will be presented with the actual words of the martyrs themselves. In others, they will read accounts penned by eye-witnesses or authors writing within the living memory of the events themselves. Taken together, these works form a glorious record of early Christian zeal and fortitude in the face of aggressive state persecution. When reading them, one notices a common refrain: when questioned, the accused would cry out: “I am a Christian,” which was the equivalent of saying, “I am guilty as charged.” In an era when such an admission carried a death sentence, these authentic testimonies provide a convincing answer to modern skeptics who will find them as baffling as did the ancient Roman emperors, proconsuls and magistrates of nearly two millennia ago.
The Theme Of Jewish Persecution Of Christians In The Gospel According To St Matthew
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Author : Douglas R. A. Hare
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2005-10-06
The Theme Of Jewish Persecution Of Christians In The Gospel According To St Matthew written by Douglas R. A. Hare 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 2005-10-06 with Religion categories.
It has long been recognized that in the Gospel according to St Matthew the conflict between Jesus and the Pharisees has been intensified and it has often been suggested that this intensification reflects the continued struggle between the Church and the synagogue. The theme of Jewish persecution of Christians in the Gospel according to St Matthew is examined in this book with two questions in mind: 1. Has Matthew exaggerated the severity of the persecution? 2. How has the persecution influenced Matthew's theology? Professor Hare examines the historical data relating to the suffering imposed upon the Christians and refers to Rabbinic literature and Christian sources other than Matthew in order to evaluate Matthew's portrayal of the persecutions. He concludes that persecution was directed primarily against Christian missionaries, not against rank-and-file Christians.