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: An expert on early Christianity reveals how the early church invented stories of Christian martyrs—and how this persecution myth persists today. According to church tradition and popular belief, 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. But as Candida Moss reveals in The Myth of Persecution, 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 invoked 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. By shedding light on the historical record, Moss urges modern Christians to abandon the conspiratorial assumption that the world is out to get them.
Download or read book Discourses Upon Tradition and Episcopacy written by Christopher Benson and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Brick Church Memorial Containing the Discourses Delivered by Dr Spring and the Discourse Preached on the Occasion of Mrs Spring s Decease written by Gardiner SPRING and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Historical Discourse Delivered at the Celebration of the Second Centennial Anniversary of the First Baptist Church in Providence November 7 1839 written by William Hague and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Discourse Delivered at the Dedication of the New Church Edifice of the Baptist Church and Society written by Josiah Phillips Tustin and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-07-09 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1845.
Download or read book A Discourse Delivered at the Dedication of the New Church Edifice of the Baptist Church and Society in Warren written by Josiah Philips Tustin and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-07-09 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An historical discourse delivered at the celebration of the second centennial anniversary of the first Baptist Church in Providence Novr 7 1839 written by William HAGUE (D.D.) and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A discourse on Scottish Church history from the Reformation written by Charles Wordsworth (bp. of St. Andrews.) and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Invention of Peter written by George E. Demacopoulos and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2013-05-29 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the first anniversary of his election to the papacy, Leo the Great stood before the assembly of bishops convening in Rome and forcefully asserted his privileged position as the heir of Peter the Apostle. This declaration marked the beginning of a powerful tradition: the Bishop of Rome would henceforth leverage the cult of St. Peter, and the popular association of St. Peter with the city itself, to his advantage. In The Invention of Peter, George E. Demacopoulos examines this Petrine discourse, revealing how the link between the historic Peter and the Roman Church strengthened, shifted, and evolved during the papacies of two of the most creative and dynamic popes of late antiquity, ultimately shaping medieval Christianity as we now know it. By emphasizing the ways in which this rhetoric of apostolic privilege was employed, extended, transformed, or resisted between the reigns of Leo the Great and Gregory the Great, Demacopoulos offers an alternate account of papal history that challenges the dominant narrative of an inevitable and unbroken rise in papal power from late antiquity through the Middle Ages. He unpacks escalating claims to ecclesiastical authority, demonstrating how this rhetoric, which almost always invokes a link to St. Peter, does not necessarily represent actual power or prestige but instead reflects moments of papal anxiety and weakness. Through its nuanced examination of an array of episcopal activity—diplomatic, pastoral, political, and administrative—The Invention of Peter offers a new perspective on the emergence of papal authority and illuminates the influence that Petrine discourse exerted on the survival and exceptional status of the Bishop of Rome.
Download or read book A Discourse Delivered at the Dedication of the New Church Edifice of the Baptist Church and Society in Warren R I May 8 1845 written by Josiah Philips Tustin and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Historical Discourse Delivered at the Celebration of the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Erection of the Congregational Church in Farmington Conn October 16 1872 written by Noah PORTER (the Younger.) and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Strictures on the discourse delivered by Archbishop Whately on the search after Infallibility with Scriptural and Patristic evidences in support of the Catholic Dogma of Church Infallibility written by Timothy John O'CONNELL and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Border Lines written by Daniel Boyarin and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2010-11-24 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The historical separation between Judaism and Christianity is often figured as a clearly defined break of a single entity into two separate religions. Following this model, there would have been one religion known as Judaism before the birth of Christ, which then took on a hybrid identity. Even before its subsequent division, certain beliefs and practices of this composite would have been identifiable as Christian or Jewish.In Border Lines, however, Daniel Boyarin makes a striking case for a very different way of thinking about the historical development that is the partition of Judaeo-Christianity. There were no characteristics or features that could be described as uniquely Jewish or Christian in late antiquity, Boyarin argues. Rather, Jesus-following Jews and Jews who did not follow Jesus lived on a cultural map in which beliefs, such as that in a second divine being, and practices, such as keeping kosher or maintaining the Sabbath, were widely and variably distributed. The ultimate distinctions between Judaism and Christianity were imposed from above by "border-makers," heresiologists anxious to construct a discrete identity for Christianity. By defining some beliefs and practices as Christian and others as Jewish or heretical, they moved ideas, behaviors, and people to one side or another of an artificial border—and, Boyarin significantly contends, invented the very notion of religion.
Download or read book Roger Williams and the Baptists An historical discourse etc written by Daniel C. EDDY and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Commemorative Discourse Delivered at Newburyport Mass written by Jonathan French Stearns and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rhetoric Ethic and Moral Persuasion in Biblical Discourse written by Thomas H. Olbricht and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2005-10-27 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays from the Heidelberg conference on rhetoric and the New Testament.
Download or read book A Discourse in Memory of Archibald Alexander Hodge written by Francis Landey Patton and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
