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Author(s): Robert Louis Wilken
ISBN(s): 9780300098396, 0300098391
Edition: 2
File Details: PDF, 9.91 MB
Year: 2003
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0300098391

ISBN 13: 9780300098396 

Author:  Robert Louis Wilken 

This book, which includes a new preface by the author, offers an engrossing portrayal of the early years of the Christian movement from the perspective of the Romans.

“A fascinating . . . account of early Christian thought. . . . Readable and exciting.”—Robert McAfee Brown, New York Times Book Review

“Should fascinate any reader with an interest in the history of human thought.”—Phoebe-Lou Adams, Atlantic Monthly

“The pioneering study in English of Roman impressions of Christians during the first four centuries A.D.”—E. Glenn Hinson, Christian Century

“This gracefully written study . . . draws upon well-known sources—both pagan and Christian—to provide the general reader with an illuminating account . . . [of how] Christianity appeared to the Romans before it became the established religion of the empire.”—Merle Rubin, Christian Science Monitor

Table of contents:

  • Preface to the Second Edition

  • Acknowledgments

  • Introduction

  • Abbreviations

Part I: Pliny: A Roman Gentleman

  • The Making of a Roman Official

  • Travels of a Provincial Governor

  • A Christian Association

  • Offerings of Wine and Incense

Part II: Christianity as a Burial Society

  • Church or Political Club?

  • A Sense of Belonging

  • A Bacchic Society

  • An Obscure and Secret Association

Part III: The Piety of the Persecutors

  • Roman Religion and Christian Prejudice

  • The Practice of Religion

  • “We Too Are a Religious People”

Part IV: Galen: The Curiosity of a Philosopher

  • Philosophy and Medicine

  • Christianity as a Philosophical School

  • The Practice of Philosophy

  • The Arbitrary God of Christians

Part V: Celsus: A Conservative Intellectual

  • Begging Priests of Cybele and Soothsayers

  • The Deficiencies of Christian Doctrine

  • Demythologizing the Story of Jesus

  • An Apostasy from Judaism

  • Religion and the Social Order

Part VI: Porphyry: The Most Learned Critic of All

  • In Defense of Plato

  • The Jewish Scriptures

  • The Christian New Testament

  • Philosophy from Oracles

  • The Religion of the Emperor

  • Jesus Not a Magician

  • An Unreasoning Faith

Part VII: Julian the Apostate: Jewish Law and Christian Truth

  • The Emperor’s Piety

  • Greek Education and Christian Values

  • Against the Galilaeans

  • The Tribal God of Jews and Christians

  • An Apostasy from Judaism

  • Epilogue

  • Suggestions for Further Reading

  • Index

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