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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German
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2014]
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Vigiliae Christianae, Supplements
125.
Vigiliae Christianae Supplements Online, ISBN: 9789004308961.
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Call Number: BT736.15 .V494 2014
- Front Matter /
- Albert C. Geljon and Riemer Roukema
- Introduction /
- Albert C. Geljon and Riemer Roukema
- Religious Violence between Greeks, Romans, Christians and Jews /
- Jan N. Bremmer
- Violence against Christians and Violence by Christians in the First Three Centuries: Direct Violence, Cultural Violence and the Debate about Christian Exclusiveness /
- Danny Praet
- Eusebius' View on Constantine and His Policy /
- Fred Ledegang
- Avenging Julian. Violence against Christians during the Years 361-363 /
- Hans C. Teitler
- Attraction and Hatred. Relations between Jews and Christians in the Early Church /
- F.J. Elizabeth Boddens Hosang
- Violence in the Early Years of Cyril of Alexandria's Episcopate /
- Hans van Loon
- Priscillian of Avila's Liber ad Damasum and the Inability to Handle a Conflict /
- Joop van Waarden
- Quid dicam de vindicando vel non vindicando? (Ep. 95, 3). Augustine's Legitimation of Coercion in the Light of His Roles of Mediator, Judge, Teacher and Mystagogue /
- Paul van Geest
- Repression von Häretikern und anderen religiösen Gruppierungen im späteren Altertum, in der Sprache widerspiegelt /
- Gerard Bartelink
- Reception and Interpretation of Jesus' Teaching of Love for Enemies in Ancient Christianity /
- Riemer Roukema
- Indexes /
- Albert C. Geljon and Riemer Roukema.