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• Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
• File Size : 49,6 Mb
• Release Date : 02 June 1988

The author recreates the world from the second to the fourth century A.D., when the gods of Olympus lost their dominion, and Christianity, with the conversion of Constantine, triumphed

• Publisher : Central European University Press
• File Size : 22,9 Mb
• Release Date : 10 October 2017

Do the terms 'pagan' and 'Christian,' 'transition from paganism to Christianity' still hold as explanatory devices to apply to the political, religious and cultural transformation experienced Empire-wise? Revisiting 'pagans'

• Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
• File Size : 42,6 Mb
• Release Date : 02 June 2024

Although Christianity is still a major religious force, there are growing numbers of people in other faiths, including the various Pagan traditions. Some Christians have responded to this trend with

• Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
• File Size : 51,7 Mb
• Release Date : 15 November 2018

Traditionalist Christians who oppose same-sex marriage and other cultural developments in the United States wonder why they are being forced to bracket their beliefs in order to participate in public

• Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
• File Size : 28,5 Mb
• Release Date : 01 November 1987

An analysis of the relationships between pagan Greece, imperial Rome, Judaism, and Christianity.

• Publisher : Routledge
• File Size : 34,7 Mb
• Release Date : 15 April 2013

In this book A.D. Lee charts the rise to dominance of Christianity in the Roman empire. Using translated texts he explains the fortunes of both Pagans and Christians from

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• File Size : 28,7 Mb
• Release Date : 02 June 2024

This book sheds new light on the religious and consequently social changes taking place in late antique Rome. The essays in this volume argue that the once-dominant notion of pagan-Christian

• Publisher : Penguin UK
• File Size : 25,7 Mb
• Release Date : 06 July 2006

How did Christianity compare and compete with the cults of the pagan gods in the Roman Empire? This scholarly work from award-winning historian, Robin Lane Fox, places Christians and pagans

• Publisher : Routledge
• File Size : 23,9 Mb
• Release Date : 15 April 2013

In the period of Roman domination there were communities of Jews, some still in Palestine, some dispersed in and around the Roman Empire; they had to face at first the

• Publisher : Indiana University Press
• File Size : 34,5 Mb
• Release Date : 22 July 1986

"In the early Roman empire, Christians were seen by pagans as overthrowers of ancient gods and destroyers of the prevailing social order. Allegations that Christians recognized each other by secret