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Chargement... Coming Out Christian in the Roman World: How the Followers of Jesus Made a Place in Caesar’s Empire (édition 2015)par Douglas Ryan Boin (Auteur)
Information sur l'oeuvreComing Out Christian in the Roman World: How the Followers of Jesus Made a Place in Caesar's Empire par Douglas Boin
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. This is a book that lives up to its provocative title. Boin brings us into the evolving world of public Christianity in the Roman empire through a close look at surviving texts, architecture, and archaeological discoveries. This world gives us a complicated Christianity, bumping shoulders with Roman gods, Isis worshipers, and Jews in the Roman kingdom -- a world of martyrs and firebrands, but that also has a place for a quieter, more flexible Christianity that is part of the Roman world instead of violently pushing against it. Boin is a wonderfully clear writer with a strong argument that pulls the reader through this approachable, but very well researched volume (such great footnotes!). Doug is a friend, and I can say that this book is really written in *his* voice, and reading it was just as fun as having a long conversation with the author. ( ) aucune critique | ajouter une critique
The supposed collapse of Roman civilization is still lamented more than 1,500 years later--and intertwined with this idea is the notion that a fledgling religion, Christianity, went from a persecuted fringe movement to an irresistible force that toppled the empire. The "intolerant zeal" of Christians, wrote Edward Gibbon, swept Rome's old gods away, and with them the structures that sustained Roman society. Not so, argues Douglas Boin. Such tales are simply untrue to history, and ignore the most important fact of all: life in Rome never came to a dramatic stop. Instead, as Boin shows, a small minority movement rose to transform society--politically, religiously, and culturally--but it was a gradual process, one that happened in fits and starts over centuries. Drawing upon a decade of recent studies in history and archaeology, and on his own research, Boin opens up a wholly new window onto a period we thought we knew. His work is the first to describe how Christians navigated the complex world of social identity in terms of "passing" and "coming out." Many Christians lived in a dynamic middle ground. Their quiet success, as much as the clamor of martyrdom, was a powerful agent for change. With this insightful approach to the story of Christians in the Roman world, Douglas Boin rewrites, and rediscovers, the fascinating early history of a world faith. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Google Books — Chargement... GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)270.1Religions History, geographic treatment, biography of Christianity History of Christianity Apostolic; Nativity to ConstantineClassification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne:
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