The spread of christianity in the first four centuries essays in explanation
The Spread of Christianity in the First Four Centuries: Essays in Explanation" attempts to show how contemporary historical scholarship, or rather a selection of its exponents, views the perennial question why a new religion, indeed a new kind of religion, succeeded in subverting the other reli...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill
2005
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| Series: | Columbia studies in the classical tradition ;
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| See on Universidad de Navarra: | https://unika.unav.edu/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma991005287549708016&context=L&vid=34UNAV_INST:VU1&search_scope=34UNAV_TODO&tab=34UNAV_TODO&lang=es |
Table of Contents:
- Models of Christian expansion / H.A. Drake
- Christian expansion and Christian ideology / J.B. Rives
- Thinking with women : the uses of the appeal to "woman" in pre-Nicene Christian propaganda literature / Elizabeth A. Clark
- The significance of leadership and organisation in the spread of Christianity / Dimitris J. Kyrtatas
- Barbarians and the empire-wide spread of Christianity / Stamenka E. Antonova
- Outlawing "magic" or outlawing "religion" : Libanius and the Theodosian code as evidence for legislation against "pagan" practices / Isabella Sandwell
- Pagans, polytheists and the pendulum / J.A. North
- Roman historians and the rise of Christianity : the school of Edward Gibbon / Seth Schwartz
