Violence in ancient Christianity : victims and perpetrators /

Violence in ancient Christianity : victims and perpetrators /

Ancient Christianity had an ambivalent stance toward violence. Jesus had instructed his disciples to love their enemies, and in the first centuries Christians were proud of this lofty teaching and tried to apply it to their persecutors and to competing religious groups. Yet at the same time they tes...

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Other Authors: Geljon, Albert C.

Format: eBook

Language: English
German

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2014]

Series: Vigiliae Christianae, Supplements 125.
Vigiliae Christianae Supplements Online, ISBN: 9789004308961.

Subjects:

30 - 600
Violence > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Church history > Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
Church history > Primitive and early church.

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Call Number: BT736.15 .V494 2014

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