Read Books Online and Download eBooks, EPub, PDF, Mobi, Kindle, Text Full Free.
Download A Succinct History Of Ancient And Modern Persecutions full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online A Succinct History Of Ancient And Modern Persecutions ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Author : Daniel Lombard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (18 download)
Download or read book A Succinct History of Ancient and Modern Persecutions written by Daniel Lombard and published by . This book was released on 1747 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Candida Moss
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062104543
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (621 download)
Download or read book The Myth of Persecution written by Candida Moss and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Daniel Lombard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (642 download)
Download or read book A Succinct History of Ancient and Modern Persecutions written by Daniel Lombard and published by . This book was released on 1747 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Professor of Church History Wolfram Kinzig
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781481313889
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (138 download)
Download or read book Christian Persecution in Antiquity written by Professor of Church History Wolfram Kinzig and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-15 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Wolfram Kinzig
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781481316613
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (166 download)
Download or read book Christian Persecution in Antiquity written by Wolfram Kinzig and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Herbert Brook Workman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)
Download or read book Persecution in the Early Church written by Herbert Brook Workman and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Hugh Clifford Frend
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 625 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (141 download)
Download or read book Martyrdom and Persecution in the Early Church written by William Hugh Clifford Frend and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Herbert B. Workman
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1532679629
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (326 download)
Download or read book Persecution in the Early Church written by Herbert B. Workman and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2009-04-01 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Author : Min Seok Shin
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9782503574479
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (744 download)
Download or read book The Great Persecution written by Min Seok Shin and published by Brepols Publishers. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Travis B. Williams
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004242015
Total Pages : 511 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Persecution in 1 Peter written by Travis B. Williams and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Persecution in 1 Peter, Travis B. Williams offers a comprehensive and detailed socio-historical investigation into the nature of persecution in 1 Peter, situating the epistle against the backdrop of conflict management in first-century CE Asia Minor.
Author : S. Chandler
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330592151
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (921 download)
Download or read book The History of Persecution written by S. Chandler and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-26 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The History of Persecution: From the Patriarchial Age to the Reign of George II It is now upwards of seventy years since this excellent treatise was first presented to the public by the author, and, considering his celebrity as a writer, (especially among the Dissenters) it is presumed no apology is necessary for sending it again into the world: especially at the present interesting crisis, when the subject of Religious Toleration, is become the topic of general conversation and discussion. This work comprises every thing of importance connected with the dreadful persecutions which have disgraced human nature, both in ancient and modern times, both at home and abroad; and is designed to prove that the things for which christians have persecuted one another have generally been of small importance; that pride, ambition, and covetousness, have been the grand sourses of persecution; and that the religion of Jesus Christ absolutely condemns all persecution for conscience sake. In this Edition, I have wholly omitted Dr. Chander's "Preface," which contains "Remarks on Dr. Rogers' vindication of the civil establishment of religion," and have substituted Memoirs of Dr. Chandler in its room: which I thought would be more generally acceptable to the reader. I have also omitted all his marginal notes of a controversial nature, being answers to Dr. Berriman, who had written a pamphlet entitled, "Brief remarks on Mr. Chandler's Introduction to the History of the Inquisition." These I conceived would be at present of little use. And as the republication of this volume is intended chiefly for common readers, I have also left out all the Greek and Latin sentences interspersed in the work, judging that they would be of no real advantage to such persons. I have however retained Dr. Chandler's authorities, so that the learned reader may refer to them when he thinks proper. As to the body of the work, I have neither altered the sense nor the language. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Esmeralda Raber Crucitti
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (226 download)
Download or read book A Concise History of Ancient Rome written by Esmeralda Raber Crucitti and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Leon Hardy Canfield
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Early Persecutions of the Christians written by Leon Hardy Canfield and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dana Carleton Munro
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Early Christian Persecutions written by Dana Carleton Munro and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Herbert Brook Workman
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Persecution in the Early Church written by Herbert Brook Workman and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1980 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carys Brown
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009221361
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (92 download)
Download or read book Friends, Neighbours, Sinners written by Carys Brown and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-08-04 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Friends, Neighbours, Sinners demonstrates the fundamental ways in which religious difference shaped English society in the first half of the eighteenth century. By examining the social subtleties of interactions between people of differing beliefs, and how they were mediated through languages and behaviours common to the long eighteenth century, Carys Brown examines the graduated layers of religious exclusivity that influenced everyday existence. By doing so, the book points towards a new approach to the social and cultural history of the eighteenth century, one that acknowledges the integral role of the dynamics of religious difference in key aspects of eighteenth-century life. This book therefore proposes not just to add to current understanding of religious coexistence in this period, but to shift our ways of thinking about the construction of social discourses, parish politics, and cultural spaces in eighteenth-century England.
Author : Gervase Phillips
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040101925
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Persecution and Genocide written by Gervase Phillips and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-08-06 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers an unparalleled range of comparative studies considering both persecution and genocide across two thousand years of history from Rome to Nazi Germany, and spanning Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas. Topics covered include the persecution of religious minorities in the ancient world and late antiquity, the medieval roots of modern antisemitism, the early modern witch-hunts, the emergence of racial ideologies and their relationship to slavery, colonialism, Russian and Soviet mass deportations, the Armenian genocide, and the Holocaust. It also introduces students to significant, but less well known, episodes, such as the Albigensian Crusade and the massacres and forced expulsions suffered by the Circassians at the hands of imperial Russia in the 1860s, as the world entered an 'age of genocide'. By exploring the ideological motivations of the perpetrators, the book invites students to engage with the moral complexities of the past and to reflect upon our own situation today as the 'legatees of two thousand years of persecution'. Gervase Phillips's book is the ideal introduction to the subject for anyone interested in the long and complex history of human persecution.
