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Author |
: Arthur James Mason |
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Total Pages |
: 432 |
Release |
: 1876 |
ISBN-10 |
: NYPL:33433068185119 |
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Rating |
: 4/5 (19 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Persecution of Diocletian by : Arthur James Mason
Author |
: Arthur James Mason |
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Total Pages |
: 400 |
Release |
: 1876 |
ISBN-10 |
: UCAL:$B68123 |
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: 4/5 (23 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Persecution of Diocletian by : Arthur James Mason
Author |
: Min Seok Shin |
Publisher |
: Brepols Publishers |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2018 |
ISBN-10 |
: 2503574475 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9782503574479 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (75 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Great Persecution by : Min Seok Shin
The Great Persecution under Diocletian and his imperial colleagues and successors is a foremost concern of modern scholarship on Roman persecution of Christians. This book is a systematic and comprehensive study of that persecution. Its focus is on events from 284 when Diocletian became emperor, to 313, when full religious liberty was granted to all religions by the so-called Edict of Milan. At least nine imperial orders were issued in 303 to 312 against Christianity. While Diocletian's orders were more concerned with the privileged upper classes of Christians, Maximinus Daia's orders were aimed at isolating all Christians from the Roman community. The enforcement of the imperial orders, and the sufferings of Christians under them, are examined on a diocese-by-diocese basis, comparing the situation in the West and in the East. In the late fourth century, Prudentius of Calahorra, poet and imperial official, complained about the loss of records on local martyrs, exclaiming, 'Alas for what is forgotten and lost to knowledge in the silence of the olden time! We are denied the facts about these matters, the very tradition is destroyed.' This book draws together the remains of what Prudentius feared was forgotten for ever.
Author |
: Arthur James Mason |
Publisher |
: BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages |
: 398 |
Release |
: 2024-06-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783385518643 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3385518644 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (43 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Persecution of Diocletian. A Historical Essay by : Arthur James Mason
Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.
Author |
: Vincent Twomey |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 184 |
Release |
: 2009 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105124152476 |
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: |
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: 4/5 (76 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Great Persecution by : Vincent Twomey
Among the papers brought together for this conference are: 'Philosophical objections to Christianity on the eve of the great persecution', 'Lessons from Diocletian's persecution', 'Preparation for martyrdom in the early church' and 'The origin of the cult of St George'.
Author |
: Candida Moss |
Publisher |
: Harper Collins |
Total Pages |
: 247 |
Release |
: 2013-03-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780062104540 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0062104543 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (40 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Myth of Persecution by : Candida Moss
In The Myth of Persecution, Candida Moss, a leading expert on early Christianity, reveals how the early church exaggerated, invented, and forged stories of Christian martyrs and how the dangerous legacy of a martyrdom complex is employed today to silence dissent and galvanize a new generation of culture warriors. According to cherished church tradition and popular belief, before the Emperor Constantine made Christianity legal in the fourth century, early Christians were systematically persecuted by a brutal Roman Empire intent on their destruction. As the story goes, vast numbers of believers were thrown to the lions, tortured, or burned alive because they refused to renounce Christ. These saints, Christianity's inspirational heroes, are still venerated today. Moss, however, exposes that the "Age of Martyrs" is a fiction—there was no sustained 300-year-long effort by the Romans to persecute Christians. Instead, these stories were pious exaggerations; highly stylized rewritings of Jewish, Greek, and Roman noble death traditions; and even forgeries designed to marginalize heretics, inspire the faithful, and fund churches. The traditional story of persecution is still taught in Sunday school classes, celebrated in sermons, and employed by church leaders, politicians, and media pundits who insist that Christians were—and always will be—persecuted by a hostile, secular world. While violence against Christians does occur in select parts of the world today, the rhetoric of persecution is both misleading and rooted in an inaccurate history of the early church. Moss urges modern Christians to abandon the conspiratorial assumption that the world is out to get Christians and, rather, embrace the consolation, moral instruction, and spiritual guidance that these martyrdom stories provide.
Author |
: Professor of Church History Wolfram Kinzig |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 188 |
Release |
: 2021-09-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1481313886 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781481313889 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (86 Downloads) |
Synopsis Christian Persecution in Antiquity by : Professor of Church History Wolfram Kinzig
For centuries into the Common Era, Christians faced social ostracism and suspicion from neighbors and authorities alike. At times, this antipathy erupted into violence. Following Christ was a risky allegiance: to be a Christian in the Roman Empire carried with it the implicit risk of being branded a traitor to cultural and imperial sensibilities. The prolonged experience of distrust, oppression, and outright persecution helped shape the ethos of the Christian faith and produced a wealth of literature commemorating those who gave their lives in witness to the gospel. Wolfram Kinzig, in Christian Persecution in Antiquity, examines the motivations and legal mechanisms behind the various outbursts of violence against Christians, and chronologically tracks the course of Roman oppression of this new religion to the time of Constantine. Brief consideration is also given to persecutions of Christians outside the borders of the Roman Empire. Kinzig analyzes martyrdom accounts of the early church, cautiously drawing on these ancient voices alongside contemporary non-Christian evidence to reconstruct the church's experience as a minority sect. In doing so, Kinzig challenges recent reductionist attempts to dismantle the idea that Christians were ever serious targets of intentional violence. While martyrdom accounts and their glorification of self-sacrifice seem strange to modern eyes, they should still be given credence as historical artifacts indicative of actual events, despite them being embellished by sanctified memory. Newly translated from the German original by Markus Bockmuehl and featuring an additional chapter and concise notes, Christian Persecution in Antiquity fills a gap in English scholarship on early Christianity and offers a helpful introduction to this era for nonspecialists. Kinzig makes clear the critical role played by the experience of persecution in the development of the church's identity and sense of belonging in the ancient world.
Author |
: Aaltje Hidding |
Publisher |
: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages |
: 235 |
Release |
: 2020-08-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783110689686 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3110689685 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (86 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Era of the Martyrs by : Aaltje Hidding
One of the most traumatic experiences of Late Antique Christians was the Great Persecution, begun by Emperor Diocletian and his Tetrarchic colleagues in 303 CE. Here Aaltje Hidding unites research of traditional memory studies with work done by cognitive scientists to examine how they remembered the Persecution. The resulting methodological framework, the ‘cognitive ecology’, systemically studies all what can be covered by this term - social surroundings, cognitive artefacts and the physical environment - and bridges the gap between individual and collective memory. The author analyses the remembrance of the Persecution in three different regions along the Nile river. In Oxyrhynchus, the thousands of papyrus fragments found at the city’s rubbish dump give a vivid image of the martyrs in the daily lives of the Oxyrhynchites. In Antinoopolis, known for the cult of the physician saint Colluthus, she zooms in on the rituals and practices at a martyr’s sanctuary. Finally, in Dandara, the rich hagiographical dossier of the anchorite Paphnutius shows how old memories of the Persecution became mixed with new monastic experiences. The Bohairic and Greek Passion of Paphnutius appear in their first complete English translations.
Author |
: Arthur James Mason |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 379 |
Release |
: 1876 |
ISBN-10 |
: LCCN:70030196 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (96 Downloads) |
Synopsis The persecution of Diocletian by : Arthur James Mason
Author |
: W. H. C. Frend |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 1082 |
Release |
: 1965 |
ISBN-10 |
: CHI:21418877 |
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: 4/5 (77 Downloads) |
Synopsis Martyrdom and Persecution in the Early Church by : W. H. C. Frend