Romische Religionspolitik Und Die Christenverfolgungen

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Römische Religionspolitik und die Christenverfolgungen

Author : Leonie Schneider
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3346142175
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (461 download)

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Download or read book Römische Religionspolitik und die Christenverfolgungen written by Leonie Schneider and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2020-04-03 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2019 im Fachbereich Theologie - Historische Theologie, Kirchengeschichte, Note: 1,5, Universität zu Köln (Evangelisches Institut), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Christenverfolgung im Imperium Romanum war kein linearer Prozess, der von allen Kaisern gleichermaßen verfolgt wurde. In dieser Arbeit wird eine Zeitspanne von knapp drei Jahrhunderten behandelt, in denen die Römer zunächst lokal und später reichsweit Christen verfolgten. Grob lassen sich die Verfolgungen in drei Phasen unterteilen: Die erste Phase bildet die Frühzeit der Entstehung des Christentums (circa 30-100 nach Christus), in der es noch nicht als eine vom Judentum gesondert zu betrachtende Religion unterschieden wurde. Erst unter Kaiser Nero kam es im Jahr 64 zu einer gezielten Verfolgung und Hinrichtung der Christen. Die zweite Phase umfasst den Zeitraum von ca. 100-250, in dem das bloße Christsein zu einem rechtlichen Strafbestand erklärt wurde, es zwar noch keine aktive Verfolgung der Behörden gab, jedoch schon einzelne Pogrome und Prozesse gegen Christen aufkamen. In der dritten Phase (250-311) kam es durch ein Opferedikt zu ersten reichsweiten und gezielten Verfolgungen und Verurteilungen von Christen, welche erst unter dem Toleranzedikt von Kaiser Galerius ein Ende fanden. Um die Beweggründe der Christenverfolgungen durch die Römer besser nachvollziehen zu können, werden in einem ersten Schritt die Grundsätze des römischen Kults beschrieben, um in einem weiteren Schritt darauf einzugehen, wie die Religionspolitik der Römer gegenüber anderen Religionen und Kulten vor dem Auftreten des Christentums vertreten war. Im Anschluss wird darauf eingegangen wie der populus Romanus im Allgemeinen zu der christlichen Minderheit stand, da sich gezeigt hat, dass die Einstellung der paganen Bevölkerung Einfluss auf die religionspolitischen Stimmungen im Imperium haben konnte. Die religionspolitischen Hintergründe der Christenverfolgungen werden dann in ihren jeweiligen Phasen untersucht, welche dabei meist mit der Regierung eines einzelnen Kaisers in Verbindung gebracht werden können. Dabei wurde versucht, solange die Quellenlage dies erlaubt, sowohl die römische als auch die christliche Sicht auf die Geschehnisse zu berücksichtigen. In den Unterkapiteln zu den einzelnen Kaisern wird dargelegt, was die jeweiligen Motive, Rechtfertigungen und Rechtsgrundlagen der Christenverfolgungen waren und inwiefern sich diese von der sonstigen Religionspolitik der Römer unterschieden.

Secrecy and Concealment

Author : Hans Kippenberg
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004378871
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Secrecy and Concealment written by Hans Kippenberg and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume deals with secrecy and concealment in the history of mediterranean religions as pattern of social interaction. Secrecy is a powerful means in establishing identity and interaction as G. Simmel has demonstrated. Using his approach the scholars of this volume describe and explain the practical meaning of concealment in two different religious systems: in Egyptian and Greek polytheism and in Jewish, Christian, Gnostic and Shi'i monotheisms. This point of view reveals that all these religions shaped social norms concerning public and private aspects of the human self.

Streit am Hof im frühen Mittelalter

Author : Matthias Becher
Publisher : V&R unipress GmbH
ISBN 13 : 3899718844
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (997 download)

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Book Synopsis Streit am Hof im frühen Mittelalter by : Matthias Becher

Download or read book Streit am Hof im frühen Mittelalter written by Matthias Becher and published by V&R unipress GmbH. This book was released on 2011 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: English summary: In the early middle ages the court was a centre for meetings of secular and clerical princes. At the court of emperors, kings, and popes, the princes of different lordships met and the court was therefore at the centre of conflict. The court as centre of rule is especially important at the moment when the cooperation at the court is questioned by escalating quarrels. In the situation of conflict the notions of the princes emerge more clearly, the implicit demands the princes were subordinated to as well as the political mode of functioning at the court. In situations of conflict the mechanism of culture of debate in the early middle ages can be observed. Different aspects of conflict at court in the early middle ages were discussed at this international congress. german description: Im fruhen Mittelalter war der Hof ein zentraler Ort der Begegnung geistlicher und weltlicher Fursten. Kaiser-, Konigs- und Papsthofe vereinten die Fursten der verschiedenen Reiche und wurden daher auch zu Kristallisationspunkten des Streits. Der Hof als Zentrum der Herrschaft tritt fur uns vor allem dann als Phanomen hervor, wenn das Mit- und Zueinander am Hof durch eskalierende Auseinandersetzungen in Frage gestellt wird. An der Streitsituation lassen sich die Vorstellungen der Beteiligten, die impliziten Anspruche, die an Konig und Grosse herangetragen werden, sowie die Wirkungsweise des Hofes besonders deutlich machen. Zudem konnen Mechanismen fruhmittelalterlicher Streitkultur an dem besonders exponierten Ort des Hofes sichtbar werden. Die verschiedenen Aspekte des Streits am fruhmittelalterlichen Hof werden in diesem Band betrachtet und analysiert.

The Jesus Revolution

Author : James M. Scott
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1666746606
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (667 download)

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Download or read book The Jesus Revolution written by James M. Scott and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2023-02-24 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This introduction to a biblical theology of the New Testament seeks to revitalize our engagement with the Scriptures for the twenty-first century by showing not only how the assemblage of ancient writings consisting of both Old and New Testaments is intrinsically relevant, but also how we can remain faithful to Jesus Christ, the organizing principle of those writings, in the process. The book is an invitation to all people of goodwill--believers and unbelievers, liberals and conservatives--to put aside their differences in order to cooperate in the revolution that Jesus inaugurated, the creation of a new and better world in the here and now as an anticipation of the eschatological finale. In an age in which many people are overwhelmed by life and looking for ways to cope, this book offers fresh perspectives and penetrating insights that are grounded in solid biblical scholarship with the aid of contemporary philosophical concepts.

Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt: Principat. v

Author : Hildegard Temporini
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1018 pages
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Risiko und Vertrauen – Risk and Trust

Author : Heike Springhart
Publisher : Evangelische Verlagsanstalt
ISBN 13 : 337405367X
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Risiko und Vertrauen – Risk and Trust written by Heike Springhart and published by Evangelische Verlagsanstalt. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Die Komplementärbegriffe Risiko und Vertrauen sind dazu geeignet, biblisch-theologische, systematisch-theologische, ethische und sozialtheoretische Perspektiven in ein produktives Gespräch zu bringen. Die Beiträge dieses Bandes nehmen die Fäden für dieses Gespräch auf und entfalten innovative Impulse für Theologie und Kirchenleitung, für Recht, Ökonomie und Zivilgesellschaft sowie für den Diskurs mit den Naturwissenschaften und die Ethik. Probleme der theologischen Anthropologie kommen dabei ebenso zur Sprache wie das ökonomische Risikomanagement, Risiko und Vertrauen im kirchenleitenden Handeln und das Problem des Rechtspopulismus. Der Band ist Michael Welker zum 70. Geburtstag gewidmet und vereint Beiträge von Autorinnen und Autoren aus Deutschland, den USA, Großbritannien, Ungarn, den Niederlanden und Südafrika. [Risk and Trust] Risk and Trust are complementary terms that can help shape a constructive conversation between biblical, theological, ethical and social theoretical perspectives. Contributions of this volume enter this conversation by unfolding impulses for theology and the church, for law, economics and the civil society as well as for the sciences and ethics. Topics include theological anthropology, trust and risk in economy and the political and theological challenges due to populism. This book is dedicated to Michael Welker for the occasion of his 70th birthday. It consists of contributions by authors from Germany, USA, Great Britain, the Netherlands, and South Africa.

Theologische, historische, und biographische skizzen

Author : Martin Hengel
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
ISBN 13 : 9783161502019
Total Pages : 824 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Theologische, historische, und biographische skizzen written by Martin Hengel and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2010 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: English summary: The seventh and final volume of Martin Hengel's Selected Essays contains 32 texts, among which two are hitherto unpublished. The first section includes the small monograph on Christ and Power, a new and programmatic essay on Heilsgeschichte (salvation history), as well as reflections on New Testament methodology. The second section is devoted to biographical sketches and investigations into the history of the discipline. The articles on Kurt Aland, Elias Bickerman, Henry Chadwick, Joseph Barber Lightfoot and Gunther Zuntz are particularly comprehensive. Some small contributions to the author's own scholarly vita conclude the essays. Jorg Frey continues the author's bibliography. An alphabetical listing of the essays contained in the seven volumes of the Selected Essays and extensive indexes on Volumes V to VII complete the volume. German description: Der siebte und letzte Band der eKleinen Schriften' umfasst 32 Texte, darunter zwei unveroffentlichte. Der erste, grossere Teil enthalt unter anderem die kleine Monographie Christus und die Macht, einen neuen, programmatischen Aufsatz zur Heilsgeschichte sowie Uberlegungen zur Methodik der neutestamentlichen Wissenschaft. Ein zweiter Teil ist biographischen und wissenschaftsgeschichtlichen Untersuchungen gewidmet; hervorzuheben sind hier umfangreiche Beitrage uber Kurt Aland, Elias Bickermann, Henry Chadwick, Joseph Barber Lightfoot und Gunther Zuntz. Einige kurze Beitrage zur eigenen wissenschaftlichen Vita des Autors runden die Aufsatzsammlung ab.Jorg Frey fuhrt die Bibliographie des Autors fort. Ein alphabetisches Verzeichnis der in den 'Kleinen Schriften' enthaltenen Aufsatze erleichtert die Orientierung, ausfuhrliche Indizes erschliessen die Bande V-VII.

The Talmud Yerushalmi and Graeco-Roman Culture

Author : Peter Schäfer
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
ISBN 13 : 9783161472442
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (724 download)

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Download or read book The Talmud Yerushalmi and Graeco-Roman Culture written by Peter Schäfer and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 1998 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume continues the studies on the most important source of late antique Judaism, the Talmud Yerushalmi, in relation to its cultural context. The text of the Talmud is juxtaposed to archaeological findings, Roman law, and contemporary classical authors. The attitude of the Rabbis towards main aspects of urban society in the Mediterranean region of late antiquity is discussed. Hereby Rabbinic Judaism is seen as integrated in the cultural currents prevalent in the eastern part of the Roman Empire. From reviews of the first volume: The essays in this volume do not seek to establish a global approach to the task, or any general methodological principles. Caution is everywhere apparent. ... This is an excellent beginning, and more is promised. It would be good if this initiative prompted more Talmudic scholars to take the Greek background of Palestinian rabbinism seriously, and finally put paid to the tendency to consider it as in some way separated from or in conflict with late antique Hellenism.N.R.M. De Lange in Bulletin of Judaeo-Greek Studies Winter 1998/99, no. 23, p. 24

Christian Martyrdom in Late Antiquity (300-450 AD)

Author : Peter Gemeinhardt
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110263521
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Christian Martyrdom in Late Antiquity (300-450 AD) written by Peter Gemeinhardt and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-07-04 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present volume’s focus lies on the formation of a multifaccetted discourse on Christian martyrdom in Late Antiquity. While martyrdom accounts remain a central means of defining Christian identity, new literary genres emerge, e.g., the Lives of Saints (Athanasius on Antony), sermons (the Cappadocians), hynms (Prudentius) and more. Authors like Eusebius of Caesarea and Augustine employ martyrological language and motifs in their apologetical and polemic writings, while the Gesta Martyrum Romanorum represent a new type of veneration of the martyrs of a single site. Beyond the borders of the Roman Empire, new martyrs’ narratives can be found. Additionally, two essays deal with methodological questions of research of such sources, thereby highlighting the hitherto understudied innovations of martyrology in Late Antiquity, that is, after the end of the persecutions of Christianity by Roman Emperors. Since then, martyrology gained new importance for the formation of Christian identity within the context of a Christianized imperium. The volume thus enlarges and specifies our knowledge of this fundamental Christian discourse.

Handbuch der Altertumswissenschaft

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Heidenfrage und Slawenfrage im deutschen Mittelalter

Author : Hans-Dietrich Kahl
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047443454
Total Pages : 1060 pages
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Download or read book Heidenfrage und Slawenfrage im deutschen Mittelalter written by Hans-Dietrich Kahl and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-02-21 with total page 1060 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The christianization of Central and Northern Europe, fundamental for the formation of the unity of our civilization was considered by earlier scholarship only in terms of what took place but not in terms of the official norms of the medieval church. On the other hand, the spiritual starting point of so-called “missionary objects” was left largely out of view. Consequently, anachronistic terms came in to use and actual facts became distorted. 26 Studies, published over more than 50 years in four different countries, discuss these problems especially against the background of Carolingian Saxony, and the Slavonic tribes between Germany and Poland, -most of whom may also be seen as the ancestors of modern-day Germans-, with special reference to the strange “Wendenkreuzzug” (Wendish crusade) of 1147.

Die orientalischen Religionen im Römerreich

Author : Maarten J. Vermaseren
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004295712
Total Pages : 596 pages
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Book Synopsis Die orientalischen Religionen im Römerreich by : Maarten J. Vermaseren

Download or read book Die orientalischen Religionen im Römerreich written by Maarten J. Vermaseren and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-08-24 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preliminary material /Maarten J. Vermaseren -- EINFÜHRUNG IN DIE GESCHICHTE UND NEUE PERSPEKTIVEN /CARSTEN COLPE -- RÖMISCHE RELIGION UND RELIGIÖSER UMBRUCH /H. S. VERSNEL -- KLEINASIEN HERKUNFTSLAND ORIENTALISCHER GOTTHEITEN /FRIEDRICH KARL DÖRNER -- MITHRAS IN DER RÖMERZEIT /MAARTEN J. VERMASEREN -- ISIS UND SARAPIS /LADISLAV VIDMAN -- ANDERE ÄGYPTISCHE GOTTHEITEN /GÜNTHER HÖLBL -- IUPITER DOLICHENUS /ELMAR SCHWERTHEIM -- JUPITER HELIOPOLITANUS /YOUSSEF HAJJAR -- DIE DEA SYRIA UND ANDERE SYRISCHE GOTTHEITEN IM IMPERIUM ROMANUM /HAN J. W. DRIJVERS -- KYBELE UND ATTIS /GABRIEL SANDERS -- ARTEMIS EPHESIA UND APHRODITE VON APHRODISIAS /ROBERT FLEISCHER -- DER SABAZIOS-KULT /RUDOLF FELLMANN -- MYSTERIEN (IN KULT UND RELIGION) UND PHILOSOPHIE /HEINRICH DÖRRIE -- FRÜHCHRISTLICHE RELIGION /ROELOF VAN DEN BROEK -- AUSEINANDERSETZUNG DES CHRISTENTUMS MIT DER UMWELT /BERNHARD KÖTTING -- GNOSIS /GILLES QUISPEL -- DER MANICHÄISMUS /ALEXANDER BÖHLIG -- DAS JUDENTUM /HANNELORE KÜNZL -- PAPYRI MAGICAE GRAECAE UND MAGISCHE GEMMEN /JACQUES SCHWARTZ -- THRAKISCHE UND DANUBISCHE REITERGÖTTER /MANFRED OPPERMANN -- INDEX /Maarten J. Vermaseren -- VERZEICHNIS DER IM TEXT GENANNTEN GEOGRAPHISCHEN NAMEN (KARTEN I UND II) /Maarten J. Vermaseren -- Geographische Karten I und II /Maarten J. Vermaseren -- ÉTUDES PRÉLIMINAIRES AUX RELIGIONS ORIENTALES DANS L'EMPIRE ROMAIN /Maarten J. Vermaseren.

Historia

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Historia written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zeitschrift für alte Geschichte.

Der römische Staat und die Christen im zweiten und dritten Jahrhundert

Author : Joachim Molthagen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
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Download or read book Der römische Staat und die Christen im zweiten und dritten Jahrhundert written by Joachim Molthagen and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Notions of Time in Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature

Author : Stefan Beyerle
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110705478
Total Pages : 706 pages
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Download or read book Notions of Time in Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature written by Stefan Beyerle and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-12-20 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive investigation of notions of "time" in deuterocanonical and cognate literature, from the ancient Jewish up to the early Christian eras, requires further scholarship. The aim of this collection of articles is to contribute to a better understanding of "time" in deuterocanonical literature and pseudepigrapha, especially in Second Temple Judaism, and to provide criteria for concepts of time in wisdom literature, apocalypticism, Jewish and early Christian historiography and in Rabbinic religiosity. Essays in this volume, representing the proceedings of a conference of the "International Society for the Study of Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature" in July 2019 at Greifswald, discuss concepts and terminologies of "time", stemming from novellas like the book of Tobit, from exhortations for the wise like Ben Sira, from an apocalyptic time table in 4 Ezra, the book of Giants or Daniel, and early Christian and Rabbinic compositions. The volume consists of four chapters that represent different approaches or hermeneutics of "time:" I. Axial Ages: The Construction of Time as "History", II. The Construction of Time: Particular Reifications, III. Terms of Time and Space, IV. The Construction of Apocalyptic Time. Scholars and students of ancient Jewish and Christian religious history will find in this volume orientation with regard to an important but multifaceted and sometimes disparate topic.

Miscellaneous Pamphlets on History and Biography: Peter, C.E. De fontibvs historiae imperatorvm Flaviorvm. 1866

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Total Pages : 732 pages
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Episcopal Elections in Late Antiquity

Author : Johan Leemans
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110268604
Total Pages : 621 pages
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Book Synopsis Episcopal Elections in Late Antiquity by : Johan Leemans

Download or read book Episcopal Elections in Late Antiquity written by Johan Leemans and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-07-28 with total page 621 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present volume contributes to a reassessment of the phenomenon of episcopal elections from the broadest possible perspective, examining the varied combination of factors, personalities, rules and habits that played a role in the process that eventually resulted in one specific candidate becoming the new bishop, and not another. The importance of episcopal elections hardly needs stating: With the bishop emerging as one of the key figures of late antique society, his election was a defining moment for the local community, and an occasion when local, ecclesiastical, and secular tensions were played out. Building on the state of the art regarding late antique bishops and episcopal election, this volume of collected studies by leading scholars offers fresh perspectives by focussing on specific case-studies and opening up new approaches. Covering much of the Later Roman Empire between 250–600 AD, the contributions will be of interest to scholars interested in Late Antique Christianity across disciplines as diverse as patristics, ancient history, canon law and oriental studies.