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Author : Paul Veyne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9782226491688
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (916 download)
Download or read book Quand notre monde est devenu chrétien (312-394) written by Paul Veyne and published by . This book was released on 2024-02-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul Veyne
Publisher : Albin Michel
ISBN 13 : 2226197648
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)
Download or read book Quand notre monde est devenu chrétien written by Paul Veyne and published by Albin Michel. This book was released on 2009-01-14 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quand notre monde est devenu chrétien a reçu le prix du Sénat du livre d'histoire et le grand prix Gobert (décerné sur proposition de l'Académie française) 2007. Il faisait en outre partie des sélections des 20 meilleurs livres de l'année 2007 sélectionnés par le magazine LIRE, ainsi que des 20 meilleurs livres de l'année 2007 sélectionnés par Le Point.C'est le livre de bonne foi d'un incroyant qui cherche à comprendre comment le christianisme, ce chef-d'oeuvre de création religieuse, a pu, entre 300 et 400, s'imposer à l'Occident tout entier. À sa manière inimitable, érudite et impertinente à la fois, Paul Veyne retient trois raisons :1. Un empereur romain nommé Constantin, maître de cet Occident, s'est converti sincèrement au christianisme et a résolu de christianiser le monde pour le sauver.2. Constantin s'est converti parce qu'au grand empereur qu'il voulait être il fallait une grande religion. Or, à cette époque, face aux dieux païens, le christianisme, bien que secte très minoritaire, était le frisson nouveau, la religion d'avant-garde qui déroulait un gigantesque plan d'amour pour le salut éternel de l'humanité.3. Constantin n'a forcé personne à se convertir, il s'est contenté d'aider financièrement et administrativement les chrétiens à mettre en place leur Église, c'est-à-dire un réseau d'évêchés tissé sur l'immense empire romain. Lentement, par docilité, les foules païennes se sont retrouvées chrétiennes. La christianisation de cent millions de personnes n'a pas fait de martyrs. Dès lors, on naîtra chrétien comme auparavant on naissait païen.Au passage, Paul Veyne est amené à évoquer certaines questions : d'où vient le monothéisme ? Faut-il parler ici d'idéologie ? La religion a-t-elle des racines psychologiques ? Avons-nous des origines chrétiennes ?Quand notre monde est devenu chrétien a reçule prix du Sénat du livre d'histoire 2007ainsi que le grand prix Gobert, décerné sur proposition de l'Académie française, et récompensant « le morceau le plus éloquent d'histoire de France, ou celui dont le mérite en approchera le plus ». « Paul Veyne est un formidable conteur. Il a une façon inimitable et joyeuse de nouer le dialogue avec les textes classiques et les lecteurs d'aujourd'hui, de prendre ces derniers à témoin en leur offrant, par des analogies éclairantes et audacieuses, un livre passionnant qui examine chaque facette de cette aventure humaine, religieuse et politique extraordinaire. » Gilles Heuré, Télérama. « Une revigorante promenade spirituelle, imagée, anticonformiste, passionnante, qui rend le lecteur plus intelligent. » L'Express. « Une démonstration aussi rigoureuse qu'enlevée. Une revigorante promenade spirituelle, imagée, anticonformiste, passionnante, qui rend le lecteur plus intelligent. » Christian Makarian, Le Vif/L'Express. « Paul Veyne mêle histoire et philosophie avec talent et impertinence. » Juliette Cerf, Philosophie magazine. « Pétillante d'ironie, cette sociologie des commencements du christianisme n'est pas seulement un modèle, elle est un plaisir de lecture. » Lire. « Un sommet d'érudition mais aussi une somme écrite dans une langue magnifique. » Le Point. « Une magistrale leçon d'histoire qui renvoie au débat contemporain sur les fondements de notre culture. » Le Figaro Magazine.
Author : Marie-Françoise Baslez
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9782854435290
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (352 download)
Download or read book Comment notre monde est devenu chrétien written by Marie-Françoise Baslez and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: En trois siècles, le christianisme est passé de la situation de religion minoritaire, illégale et parfois persécutée, éclatée en communautés dispersées et très hétérogènes, au statut de religion d'Empire, dans le cadre unifié de l'Eglise. Comment un tel événement a-t-il pu se produire? Le débat porte aujourd'hui sur le rythme et les acteurs de cette évolution remarquable. Fut-elle réellement brutale et inattendue jusqu'au choix personnel de Constantin qui transforma en religion d'Empire une secte que rien ne prédisposait à un tel destin? Ou, cette évolution, s'inscrit-elle dans la longue durée, par la volonté même des chrétiens d'être dans le monde, d'utiliser au mieux réseaux et moyens de communication pour médiatiser le message évangélique, et ce, à l'instar de saint Paul. Les enjeux de ce débat sont à l'évidence cruciaux et profondément ancrés dans l'actualité (racines chrétiennes de l'Europe, multiculturalisme et communautarisme, etc.). Se basant sur une approche sociologique permettant de renouveler questions et réponses, fruit de plus de vingt ans de recherches et de publications, Comment notre Inonde est devenu chrétien offre au grand public la synthèse qui manquait.
Author : Paul Veyne
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0745683371
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)
Download or read book When Our World Became Christian written by Paul Veyne and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-10-29 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This short book by one of France's leading historians deals with a big question: how was it that Christianity, that masterpiece of religious invention, managed, between 300 and 400 AD, to impose itself upon the whole of the Western world? In his erudite and inimitable way, Paul Veyne suggests three possible explanations. Was it because a Roman emperor, Constantine, who was master of the Western world at the time, became a sincere convert to Christianity and set out to Christianize the whole world in order to save it? Or was it because, as a great emperor, Constantine needed a great religion, and in comparison to the pagan gods, Christianity, despite being a minority sect, was an avant-garde religion unlike anything seen before? Or was it because Constantine limited himself to helping the Christians set up their Church, a network of bishoprics that covered the vast Roman Empire, and that gradually and with little overt resistance the pagan masses embraced Christianity as their own religion? In the course of deciding between these explanations Paul Veyne sheds fresh light on one of the most profound transformations that shaped the modern world - the Christianization of the West. A bestseller in France, this book will appeal to a wide readership interested in history, religion and the rise of the modern world.
Author : Marie-Françoise Baslez
Publisher : Tallandier
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Comment les chrétiens sont devenus catholiques written by Marie-Françoise Baslez and published by Tallandier. This book was released on 2019-02-28 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On imagine volontiers que l’Église, depuis ses origines, est une, catholique (universelle), apostolique (organisée par les apôtres de Jésus) et romaine (sous l’autorité de l’évêque de Rome), que les Églises orientales sont restées indépendantes pour des raisons intellectuelles ou historiques, que le culte a toujours été rendu de la même manière et le dogme fixé de toute éternité. Essaimage, dissidences et persécutions n’auraient-ils donc changé en rien le devenir des communautés chrétiennes durant leurs quatre ou cinq premiers siècles d’existence ? La construction de l’identité catholique aurait-elle été aussi linéaire qu’on le croit encore souvent ? Au contraire, la réalité est que la marche vers l’universalisme se déroule sous le signe de tensions continuelles. Au commencement, il n’y a pas de doctrine, mais seulement un message, l’évangile. Il n’y a pas non plus d’organisation, sinon locale. Les communautés développent une conscience collective, l’enseignement et la discipline se construisent au fil des siècles sous l’effet de contraintes extérieures, notamment politiques, tout autant que des évolutions de la pensée antique dans un perpétuel bouillonnement d’idées. Appuyé sur une connaissance intime des sources chrétiennes et non chrétiennes et nourri des recherches les plus récentes, ce livre riche et suggestif décrit un long processus de construction qui se clôt avec la transformation du christianisme en religion impériale à partir du règne de Constantin, le concile de Nicée (325) et finalement celui de Chalcédoine (451). Il renouvelle profondément l’histoire concrète des quinze ou vingt premières générations de chrétiens.
Author : Peter Brown
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400844533
Total Pages : 806 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Through the Eye of a Needle written by Peter Brown and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-02 with total page 806 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping intellectual history of the role of wealth in the church in the last days of the Roman Empire Jesus taught his followers that it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter heaven. Yet by the fall of Rome, the church was becoming rich beyond measure. Through the Eye of a Needle is a sweeping intellectual and social history of the vexing problem of wealth in Christianity in the waning days of the Roman Empire, written by the world's foremost scholar of late antiquity. Peter Brown examines the rise of the church through the lens of money and the challenges it posed to an institution that espoused the virtue of poverty and called avarice the root of all evil. Drawing on the writings of major Christian thinkers such as Augustine, Ambrose, and Jerome, Brown examines the controversies and changing attitudes toward money caused by the influx of new wealth into church coffers, and describes the spectacular acts of divestment by rich donors and their growing influence in an empire beset with crisis. He shows how the use of wealth for the care of the poor competed with older forms of philanthropy deeply rooted in the Roman world, and sheds light on the ordinary people who gave away their money in hopes of treasure in heaven. Through the Eye of a Needle challenges the widely held notion that Christianity's growing wealth sapped Rome of its ability to resist the barbarian invasions, and offers a fresh perspective on the social history of the church in late antiquity.
Author : Guy G. Stroumsa
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0198738862
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)
Download or read book The Making of the Abrahamic Religions in Late Antiquity written by Guy G. Stroumsa and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents how ancient Christianity must be understood from the viewpoint of the history of religions in late antiquity. The continuation of biblical prophecy runs like a thread from Jesus through Mani to Muhammad. And yet this thread, arguably the single most important characteristic of the Abrahamic movement, often remains outside the mainstream, hidden, as it were, since it generates heresy. The figures of the Gnostic, the holy man, and the mystic are all sequels of the Israelite prophet. They reflect a mode of religiosity that is characterized by high intensity. It is centripetal and activist by nature and emphasizes sectarianism and polemics, esoteric knowledge, or gnosis and charisma. The other mode of religiosity, obviously much more common than the first one, is centrifugal and irenic. It favors an ecumenical attitude, contents itself with a widely shared faith, or pistis, and reflects, in Weberian parlance, the routinization of the new religious movement. This is the mode of priests and bishops, rather than that of martyrs and holy men. These two main modes of religion, high versus low intensity, exist simultaneously, and cross the boundaries of religious communities. They offer a tool permitting us to follow the transformations of religion in late antiquity in general, and in ancient Christianity in particular, without becoming prisoners of the traditional categories of patristic literature. Through the dialectical relationship between these two modes of religiosity, one can follow the complex transformations of ancient Christianity in its broad religious context.
Author : Paul Veyne
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0745683800
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)
Download or read book Foucault written by Paul Veyne and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-03-23 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michel Foucault and Paul Veyne: the philosopher and the historian. Two major figures in the world of ideas, resisting all attempts at categorization. Two timeless thinkers who have long walked and fought together. In this short book Paul Veyne offers a fresh portrait of his friend and relaunches the debate about his ideas and legacy. ‘Foucault is not who you think he is’, writes Veyne; he stood neither on the left nor on the right and was frequently disowned by both. He was not so much a structuralist as a sceptic, an empiricist disciple of Montaigne, who never ceased in his work to reflect on 'truth games', on singular, constructed truths that belonged to their own time. A unique testimony by a scholar who knew Foucault well, this book succeeds brilliantly in grasping the core of his thought and in stripping away the confusions and misunderstandings that have so often characterized the interpretation of Foucault and his work.
Author : Timothy D. Barnes
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1444396250
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (443 download)
Download or read book Constantine written by Timothy D. Barnes and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-11-13 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on recent scholarly advances and new evidence, Timothy Barnes offers a fresh and exciting study of Constantine and his life. First study of Constantine to make use of Kevin Wilkinson's re-dating of the poet Palladas to the reign of Constantine, disproving the predominant scholarly belief that Constantine remained tolerant in matters of religion to the end of his reign Clearly sets out the problems associated with depictions of Constantine and answers them with great clarity Includes Barnes' own research into the marriage of Constantine's parents, Constantine's status as a crown prince and his father's legitimate heir, and his dynastic plans Honorable Mention for 2011 Classics & Ancient History PROSE award granted by the Association of American Publishers
Author : Jonathan Hill
Publisher : James Clarke & Company
ISBN 13 : 0227179072
Total Pages : 813 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (271 download)
Download or read book Dictionary of Theologians written by Jonathan Hill and published by James Clarke & Company. This book was released on 2010-03-25 with total page 813 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exhaustive guide to every significant Christian theologian who lived from the first century to 1308, the year in which John Duns Scotus died. The dictionary encompasses the Catholic, Orthodox, Nestorian and Monophysite traditions, including information not previously available in English. Thoroughly indexed, the dictionary incorporates common variants of names and concepts which will help and direct the reader. The main criterion for inclusion has been contribution to the development of Christian theology. Sub-criteria by which that is measured include, above all, originality and influence on later figures. With over 290 entries, the dictionary provides a handy summary of theologiansi lives and writings together with recent scholarship,as well as an up-to-date, definitive bibliography listing primary texts, translations and secondary literature in the major western European languages. Useful for all levels of academia; no other text matches the depth of the dictionaryis bibliographies. The unprecedented thoroughness of Hill's compilation provides an essential resource for studies at all levels on such a large and varied range of Church thinkers.
Author : Christian Laes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139868101
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (398 download)
Download or read book Youth in the Roman Empire written by Christian Laes and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-20 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern society has a negative view of youth as a period of storm and stress, but at the same time cherishes the idea of eternal youth. How does this compare with ancient Roman society? Did a phase of youth exist there with its own characteristics? How was youth appreciated? This book studies the lives and the image of youngsters (around 15–25 years of age) in the Latin West and the Greek East in the Roman period. Boys and girls of all social classes come to the fore; their lives, public and private, are sketched with the help of a range of textual and documentary sources, while the authors also employ the results of recent neuropsychological research. The result is a highly readable and wide-ranging account of how the crucial transition between childhood and adulthood operated in the Roman world.
Author : Anthony Pagden
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191029831
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Worlds at War written by Anthony Pagden and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2009-07-16 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The differences that divide West from East go deeper than politics, deeper than religion, argues Anthony Pagden. To understand this volatile relationship, and how it has played out over the centuries, we need to go back before the Crusades, before the birth of Islam, before the birth of Christianity, to the fifth century BCE. Europe was born out of Asia and for centuries the two shared a single history. But when the Persian emperor Xerxes tried to conquer Greece, a struggle began which has never ceased. This book tells the story of that long conflict. First Alexander the Great and then the Romans tried to unite Europe and Asia into a single civilization. With the conversion of the West to Christianity and much of the East to Islam, a bitter war broke out between two universal religions, each claiming world dominance. By the seventeenth century, with the decline of the Church, the contest had shifted from religion to philosophy: the West's scientific rationality in contrast to those sought ultimate guidance it in the words of God. The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries witnessed the disintegration of the great Muslim empires - the Ottoman, the Mughal, and the Safavid in Iran - and the increasing Western domination of the whole of Asia. The resultant attempt to mix Islam and Western modernism sparked off a struggle in the Islamic world between reformers and traditionalists which persists to this day. The wars between East and West have not only been the longest and most costly in human history, they have also formed the West's vision of itself as independent, free, secular, and now democratic. They have shaped, and continue to shape, the nature of the modern world.
Author : Jean-Luc Nancy
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 0823242943
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (232 download)
Download or read book Adoration:The Deconstruction of Christianity II written by Jean-Luc Nancy and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second volume in Nancy's The Deconstruction of Christianity explores the stance or bearing that would be appropriate for us now, in the wake of the dis-enclosure of religion and the retreat of God: that of adoration. Adoration is stretched out toward things, but without phenomenological intention. In our present historical time, we have come to see relation itself as the divine. The address and exclamation--the salut!--that constitutes adoration celebrates this relation: both the relation among all beings that the world is and what is beyond relation, the outside of the world that opens us in the midst of the world. A major contribution to the contemporary philosophy of religion, Adoration clarifies and builds upon not only Dis-Enclosure, the first volume in this project, but also Nancy's other previous writings on sense, the world, and the singular plurality of being.
Author : Walter Pohl
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 311059756X
Total Pages : 712 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Transformations of Romanness written by Walter Pohl and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-07-09 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roman identity is one of the most interesting cases of social identity because in the course of time, it could mean so many different things: for instance, Greek-speaking subjects of the Byzantine empire, inhabitants of the city of Rome, autonomous civic or regional groups, Latin speakers under ‘barbarian’ rule in the West or, increasingly, representatives of the Church of Rome. Eventually, the Christian dimension of Roman identity gained ground. The shifting concepts of Romanness represent a methodological challenge for studies of ethnicity because, depending on its uses, Roman identity may be regarded as ‘ethnic’ in a broad sense, but under most criteria, it is not. Romanness is indeed a test case how an established and prestigious social identity can acquire many different shades of meaning, which we would class as civic, political, imperial, ethnic, cultural, legal, religious, regional or as status groups. This book offers comprehensive overviews of the meaning of Romanness in most (former) Roman provinces, complemented by a number of comparative and thematic studies. A similarly wide-ranging overview has not been available so far.
Author : Marcello Balbo
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786734974
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)
Download or read book The Medina written by Marcello Balbo and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-03-22 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The countries of the southern Mediterranean enjoy a rich and diverse cultural heritage. At the heart of this heritage lie the medinas - the historic city centres, often dating back to medieval times. A source of pride and collective belonging, they have nevertheless been subject to neglect and decay under the combined pressures of demographic growth, urbanization and modernization. At present, the historic city centres are in danger of being irreversibly marginalized. Even though the cultural heritage value of these historic city centres is now widely recognized, no coherent restoration policy is being implemented - only a number of historic monuments and prestigious building are being restored or converted into expensive hotels and restaurants. The dilemma between preserving the physical fabric of the medinas and protecting the social context remains unresolved. The Medina brings together a team of experienced professionals, including urban planners, architects, economists, sociologists, financial experts and representatives from international organizations and Mediterranean governments, to address the pressing problem of how to revitalise and restore the medinas in a sustainable way. Arguing for a comprehensive and integrated approach, the authors set out different scenarios for the development of these historic urban centres and strategies for their restoration. The first part of the book provides an introduction to the problems and issues involved in restoration. Importantly it does so against a backdrop of the economic, social and urban development that the countries are predicted to undergo. The second part provides examples of different medinas - including Damascus, Cairo, Meknes, Azzemmour - and presents important material on the financing of such initiatives. It is expected that by 2030 nearly 80 per cent of the inhabitants of the Mediterranean countries will live in towns. This represents an enormous challenge and suggests that the region's social and economic future will largely depend on management of the urban reality. Controlling the development of the heart of the towns and cities, and in particular the medinas, will play a vital role in preserving the cultural and social capital of the Mediterranean countries whilst retaining their considerable potential as attractions. This important and timely book presents a unique and pioneering contribution to realising that aim.
Author : Susan Emanuel
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1459627520
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (596 download)
Download or read book The End of Sacrifice written by Susan Emanuel and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2011-08-22 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The religious transformations that marked late antiquity represent an enigma that has challenged some of the West's greatest thinkers. But, according to Guy Stroumsa, the oppositions between paganism and Christianity that characterize prevailing theories have endured for too long. Instead of describing this epochal change as an evolution within ...
Author : Jan N. Bremmer
Publisher : Barkhuis
ISBN 13 : 9077922709
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (779 download)
Download or read book The Rise of Christianity Through the Eyes of Gibbon, Harnack and Rodney Stark written by Jan N. Bremmer and published by Barkhuis. This book was released on 2010 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rise of Christianity up to the victory of Constantine has often been studied and remains a puzzling phenomenon. In this valedictory lecture Jan N. Bremmer concentrates on the explanations adduced, focusing in particular on the works of three iconic figures from the last two hundred and fifty years: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire of Edward Gibbon, the most famous ancient historian of all time, at the end of the eighteenth century; Die Mission und Ausbreitung des Christentums of Adolf von Harnack, the greatest historian of early Christianity of all time, around 1900, and The Rise of Christianity of Rodney Stark, the most adventurous sociologist of religion of our times, at the end of the twentieth century.Bremmer locates their concerns and explanations within their own times, but also takes them seriously as scholars, discussing their analyses and approaches. In this way he shows both the continuities and the innovations in the evolving view which scholarship presents of early Christianity. Bremmer's exceptional knowledge of the huge range of scholarship and his humane and balanced judgment make this lecture the ideal introduction to the many problems raised by Christianity's displacement of paganism
