The darkening age : the Christian destruction of the classical world

The darkening age the Christian destruction of the classical world

Despite the long-held notion that the early Christians were meek and mild, going to their martyr's deaths singing hymns of love and praise, the truth, as Catherine Nixey reveals, is very different. Far from being meek and mild, they were violent, ruthless and fundamentally intolerant. Unlike th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Nixey, Catherine 1980- autor (autor)
Formato: Libro
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Macmillan, an imprint of Pan Macmillian 2017.
Materias:
Church history > Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
Christianity and other religions.
Violence > Religious aspects > Christianity > History > To 1500.
Religious adherents > History > To 1500.
Church history > Primitive and early church.
Religious adherents.
Violence > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Violencia > Aspecto religioso > Cristianismo.
Iglesia > Historia > ca. 0030-0600 (Iglesia primitiva)
Cristianismo > Relaciones.
Fanatismo.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue: A beginning
  • Introduction: An ending
  • 1. The invisible army
  • 2. The background of demons
  • 3. Wisdom is foolishness
  • 4. 'On the small number of martyrs'
  • 5. These deranged men
  • 6. The most magnificent building in the world
  • 7. To despise the temples
  • 8. How to destroy a demon
  • 9. The reckless ones
  • 10. To drink from the cup of devils
  • 11. To cleanse the error of demons
  • 12. Carpe diem
  • 13. They that forsake the way of God
  • 14. To obliterate the tyranny of joy
  • 15. Merciful savagery
  • 16. A time of tyranny and crisis.

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