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The Darkening Age

Author : Catherine Nixey
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0544800931
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (448 download)

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Download or read book The Darkening Age written by Catherine Nixey and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Notable Book, winner of the Jerwood Award from the Royal Society of Literature, a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, and named a Book of the Year by the Telegraph, Spectator, Observer, and BBC History Magazine, this bold new history of the rise of Christianity shows how its radical followers helped to annihilate Greek and Roman civilizations. The Darkening Age is the largely unknown story of how a militant religion deliberately attacked and suppressed the teachings of the Classical world, ushering in centuries of unquestioning adherence to "one true faith." Despite the long-held notion that the early Christians were meek and mild, going to their martyrs' deaths singing hymns of love and praise, the truth, as Catherine Nixey reveals, is very different. Far from being meek and mild, they were violent, ruthless, and fundamentally intolerant. Unlike the polytheistic world, in which the addition of one new religion made no fundamental difference to the old ones, this new ideology stated not only that it was the way, the truth, and the light but that, by extension, every single other way was wrong and had to be destroyed. From the first century to the sixth, those who didn't fall into step with its beliefs were pursued in every possible way: social, legal, financial, and physical. Their altars were upturned and their temples demolished, their statues hacked to pieces, and their priests killed. It was an annihilation. Authoritative, vividly written, and utterly compelling, this is a remarkable debut from a brilliant young historian.

The Ethos of Pluralization

Author : William E. Connolly
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9781452900599
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Ethos of Pluralization written by William E. Connolly and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Grammar and Christianity in the Late Roman World

Author : Catherine M. Chin
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812201574
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Grammar and Christianity in the Late Roman World written by Catherine M. Chin and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2013-02-12 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between the years 350 and 500 a large body of Latin artes grammaticae emerged, educational texts outlining the study of Latin grammar and attempting a systematic discussion of correct Latin usage. These texts—the most complete of which are attributed to Donatus, Charisius, Servius, Diomedes, Pompeius, and Priscian—have long been studied as documents in the history of linguistic theory and literary scholarship. In Grammar and Christianity in the Late Roman World, Catherine Chin instead finds within them an opportunity to probe the connections between religious ideology and literary culture in the later Roman Empire. To Chin, the production and use of these texts played a decisive role both in the construction of a pre-Christian classical culture and in the construction of Christianity as a religious entity bound to a religious text. In exploring themes of utopian writing, pedagogical violence, and the narration of the self, the book describes the multiple ways literary education contributed to the idea that the Roman Empire and its inhabitants were capable of converting from one culture to another, from classical to Christian. The study thus reexamines the tensions between these two idealized cultures in antiquity by suggesting that, on a literary level, they were produced simultaneously through reading and writing techniques that were common across the empire. In bringing together and reevaluating fundamental topics from the fields of religious studies, classics, education, and literary criticism, Grammar and Christianity in the Late Roman World offers readers from these disciplines the opportunity to reconsider the basic conditions under which religions and cultures interact.

Cybele, Attis and Related Cults

Author : Eugene N. Lane
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004295887
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Cybele, Attis and Related Cults written by Eugene N. Lane and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-08-27 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together articles on the cult of the mother-goddess Cybele and her consort Attis, from the emergence of the religion in Anatolia through its expansion into Greece and Italy to the latest times of the Roman Empire and its farthest extent west, the Iberian Peninsula. It combines the work of established scholars with that of young researchers in the field, and represents a truly international perspective. The reader will find treatment inter alia of Cybele's emasculated priests, the Galli; the dissemination of Cybele-cult through the harbour city, Miletus; the cult of Cybele in Ephesus; the rock-cut sanctuary of Cybele at Akrai in Sicily; the competition between the Cybele-cult and Christianity; and the role of Attis in Neo-Platonic philosophy.

The Rise and Decline of American Religious Freedom

Author : Steven D. Smith
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674730135
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book The Rise and Decline of American Religious Freedom written by Steven D. Smith and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2014-02-18 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Familiar accounts of religious freedom in the United States often tell a story of visionary founders who broke from centuries-old patterns of Christendom to establish a political arrangement committed to secular and religiously neutral government. These novel commitments were supposedly embodied in the religion clauses of the First Amendment. But this story is largely a fairytale, Steven Smith says in this incisive examination of a much-mythologized subject. The American achievement was not a rejection of Christian commitments but a retrieval of classic Christian ideals of freedom of the church and of conscience. Smith maintains that the First Amendment was intended merely to preserve the political status quo in matters of religion. America's distinctive contribution was, rather, a commitment to open contestation between secularist and providentialist understandings of the nation which evolved over the nineteenth century. In the twentieth century, far from vindicating constitutional principles, as conventional wisdom suggests, the Supreme Court imposed secular neutrality, which effectively repudiated this commitment to open contestation. Instead of upholding what was distinctively American and constitutional, these decisions subverted it. The negative consequences are visible today in the incoherence of religion clause jurisprudence and the intense culture wars in American politics.

The Jewish Quarterly Review

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 760 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The Jewish Quarterly Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Catholic World

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1106 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Catholic World written by and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 1106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Machiavelli and Epicureanism

Author : Robert J. Roecklein
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739177117
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Machiavelli and Epicureanism written by Robert J. Roecklein and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2012-10-05 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the influence of Epicurean physics on the argument developed in Machiavelli’s Discourses on Livy. Towards this end, the full philosophical history and origins of atomist philosophy are investigated during the first three chapters. Plato’s critique of the atomist philosophy, from his dialogue the Parmenides, is a part of that investigation. In fact, Plato provides a refutation of the atomist philosophy in the Parmenides. A significant amount of scholarship has been accomplished that demonstrates the currents of Lucretian atomism in Machiavelli’s Florence. Evidence is supplied as to Machiavelli’s exposure to the Lucretian text, and the book then proceeds to investigate the transformational arguments of the Discourses On Livy itself. Machiavelli’s Discourses are saturated with terminology that is borrowed from physics: ‘materia’ (Matter), ‘corpo’ (body), ‘forma’ (form), ‘accidente’ (accident). English translators have usually employed some theory as to which tradition of physics Machiavelli is relying upon, in order to conduct their translations. By borrowing the terminology of Lucretian physics, Machiavelli becomes able to conceive of the people in a political society as something less than human: as ‘matter’ or materia without form. In my analysis of Machiavelli’s deployment of the concepts from Lucretian physics, it is attempted to unveil the brutality that is inherent in Machiavelli’s new definitions of the elements of politics, and the general hostility of his political science to the Aristotelian concept of the human being as political animal. The classical physics of Aristotle, which Machiavelli has rejected for a model, indicates the forward looking momentum of natural beings. For Aristotle, nature intends human political society as the arena for human fulfillment. In Aristotelian physics, nature aims at an end in generation, i.e. at a culmination of the natural being in its proper condition of excellence. For human beings, this is justice, the quality of relationships that makes happiness possible. In Machiavelli, a new politicized physics is revealed. In Machiavelli’s model, the human beings of formed matter are repeatedly sent, through new institutions and methods of government, ‘back to their beginnings’, i.e. to a condition of isolation, destitution, injury, and pain. The last chapter of the book concludes with an examination of the particular institutions and methods that Machiavelli holds out to us for employment, if his new vision of a republic is to be realized.

Contemplating God with the Great Tradition

Author : Craig A. Carter
Publisher : Baker Books
ISBN 13 : 1493429698
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (934 download)

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Download or read book Contemplating God with the Great Tradition written by Craig A. Carter and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2021-04-20 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Southwestern Journal of Theology 2021 Book of the Year Award (Theological Studies) 2021 Book Award, The Gospel Coalition (Honorable Mention, Academic Theology) Following his well-received Interpreting Scripture with the Great Tradition, Craig Carter presents the biblical and theological foundations of trinitarian classical theism. Carter, a leading Christian theologian known for his provocative defenses of classical approaches to doctrine, critiques the recent trend toward modifying or rejecting classical theism in favor of modern "relational" understandings of God. The book includes a short history of trinitarian theology from its patristic origins to the modern period, and a concluding appendix provides a brief summary of classical trinitarian theology. Foreword by Carl R. Trueman.

Magic and Paganism in Early Christianity

Author : Hans-Josef Klauck
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9780567089625
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (896 download)

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Download or read book Magic and Paganism in Early Christianity written by Hans-Josef Klauck and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2003-03-01 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many forms of magic and paganism were practiced at the time of Jesus. What were these practices, and how did the first Christians react to them?Hans-Josef Klauck, an expert in the cultic practices of the region, describes this world into which Christianity was born and relates to it the many experiences of the first Christians recorded in Acts. Peter, for example, encounters the Samaritan magician Simon; Paul meets the Jewish magician Bar-Jesus; the people in Lystra want to offer a sacrifice to Paul and Barnabas; a soothsaying slave girl is the occasion of conflict in Philippi; in Athens, Paul finds the city full of idols but also discovers an altar 'to an unknown god'; in Ephesus, some burn their books of magic formulae, while other provoke a riot in the name of Artemis.Professor Klauck provides a fascinating account of these phenomena and their significance for Christianity historically and today.Available November 2000.

Interpreting Scripture with the Great Tradition

Author : Craig A. Carter
Publisher : Baker Books
ISBN 13 : 1493413295
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (934 download)

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Download or read book Interpreting Scripture with the Great Tradition written by Craig A. Carter and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rise of modernity, especially the European Enlightenment and its aftermath, has negatively impacted the way we understand the nature and interpretation of Christian Scripture. In this introduction to biblical interpretation, Craig Carter evaluates the problems of post-Enlightenment hermeneutics and offers an alternative approach: exegesis in harmony with the Great Tradition. Carter argues for the validity of patristic christological exegesis, showing that we must recover the Nicene theological tradition as the context for contemporary exegesis, and seeks to root both the nature and interpretation of Scripture firmly in trinitarian orthodoxy.

The Classical Weekly

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Classical Weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era, 1760–1850

Author : Christopher John Murray
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135455791
Total Pages : 1303 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (354 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era, 1760–1850 written by Christopher John Murray and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 1303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 850 analytical articles, this two-volume set explores the developments that influenced the profound changes in thought and sensibility during the second half of the eighteenth century and the first half of the nineteenth century. The Encyclopedia provides readers with a clear, detailed, and accurate reference source on the literature, thought, music, and art of the period, demonstrating the rich interplay of international influences and cross-currents at work; and to explore the many issues raised by the very concepts of Romantic and Romanticism.

The Classical Review

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)

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Download or read book The Classical Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Classical Weekly

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 238 pages
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Download or read book Classical Weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism

Author : Lynn Zott
Publisher : Classical and Medieval Literat
ISBN 13 : 9780787659912
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (599 download)

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Download or read book Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism written by Lynn Zott and published by Classical and Medieval Literat. This book was released on 2003-05 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation A convenient source of wide-ranging critical opinion on classical and medieval literatures.

Ethical Life

Author : Harry Redner
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742512337
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (123 download)

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Download or read book Ethical Life written by Harry Redner and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2001 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australian philosopher of science Redner argues that cultural life consists of three fundamental aspects: representation, ethos, and technics. This is the second of four volumes setting out a comprehensive theory of human culture. The first is A New Science of Representation, the third and companion to the second will be Aesthetic Life, and the third will be The Triumph of Technics. His conclusion at the end of the series is that the contemporary global culture is a triumph of technics over representation and ethos. c. Book News Inc.