Download or read book The Acts of the Pagan Martyrs written by Herbert Musurillo and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "... Reporting the trials of Alexandrian heroes ... an important body of Christian literature, illuminating both the beliefs and practices of the early Christians and the extent of Roman persecutions"--Cover blurb.
Download or read book The Acts of the Pagan Martyrs written by Herbert Musurillo and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Acts of the Pagan martyrs Acta Alexandrinorum Edited by Herbert A Musurillo written by Herbert A. Musurillo (S.J., le P.) and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Acts of the Christian Martyrs written by Herbert Musurillo and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1972 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Acts of the Pagan Martyrs Acta Alexandrinorum Edited with Commentary by H A Musurillo Gk Eng written by Herbert Anthony MUSURILLO and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Acta Alexandrinorum The Acts of the Pagan Martyrs written by Herbert Anthony MUSURILLO and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Pagan Acts of the Martyrs written by Herbert Musurillo and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Acts of the Pagan Martyrs written by Herbert Musurillo and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pre Decian Acts of Martyrs and Commentarii written by Gary A. Bisbee and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fox s Book of Martyrs Or The Acts and Monuments of the Christian Church written by John Foxe and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Jews and Christians Volume 6 written by Molly Whittaker and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1984-11-22 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this book is to give access to sources which illustrate Graeco-Roman views on Jews and Christians from 200 BC to AD 200. Passages range from longer extracts written by historians to short incidental references by disparate authors which throw light on attitudes towards beliefs and social customs. The pagan religious background, especially the Mystery religions, is also described and illustrated by selected passages, so that the reader may have some idea of the general religious climate during this period. Every quotation is prefixed by a brief biography of the author and all passages have been translated into English, with explanatory comment when necessary. Connecting essays act as summaries and focus the attention on essential issues. These, together with a chronological chart and maps should enable a student coming fresh to the subject, without previous specialized knowledge, to see the period in historical perspective.
Download or read book The Acts of the Pagans Martyrs written by Herbert Anthony Musurillo and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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.
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Download or read book The Blood of the Martyrs written by Domenico Miletti and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This MA thesis will discuss the reception of common, non-scholarly polytheists (pagans) to the persecution of Christians from the early empire until the Great Persecution (303-313, 322-324). Though modern scholars have addressed this issue and asserted that there was a change in attitude, many have not developed this into anything more than a passing statement. When chronologically analyzing the Christian acts, passions, letters, and speeches recounting the deaths of martyrs deemed historically authentic, and accounting for the literary and biblical topoi, we can demonstrate that the position of non-Christians changed. The methodology of this thesis will chronologically assess the martyr acts, passions, speeches, and letters which are historically accurate after literary and biblical topoi are addressed. These sources are available in the appendix. Throughout this analysis, we will see two currents. The primary current will seek to discern the change in pagan reception of anti-Christian persecution, while the second current will draw attention to the Roman concept of religio and superstitio, both important in understanding civic religion which upheld the pax deorum and defined loyalty to the Roman order through material sacrifices and closely connected to one's citizenship. Religio commonly denoted proper ritual practices, while superstitio defined irregular forms of worship which may endanger the state. As we will see, Christians were feared and persecuted because it was believed that their cult would anger the gods and disrupt the cosmological order. The analysis will begin with a discussion centered on the "accusatory" approach to the Christian church during the first two centuries when the Roman state relied on provincial delatores (denounces) to legislate against the cult. During the first two centuries persecution was mostly provincial, sporadic and was not centrally-directed. We will see that provincial mobs were the most violent during the first two centuries. During the third century the actions of the imperial authority changed and began following an "inquisitorial" approach with the accession of Emperors Decius and Valerian, the former enacting an edict of universal sacrifices while the latter undertook the first Empire-wide initiative to crush the Christian community. It is during the third century that the attitude of non-elite pagans may have begun to change. This will be suggested when discussing the martyrdom of Pionius. When discussing the fourth century Great Persecution under the Diocletianic tetrarchy, it will be suggested that the pagan populace may have begun to look upon the small Christian community sympathetically. The thesis will conclude with the victory of Constantine over Licinius and the slow but steady rise of Christianity to prominence, becoming the official religio of the empire with traditional paganism relegated to the status of a superstitio.
