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Chargement... Pagan and Christian in an Age of Anxiety: Some Aspects of Religious Experience from Marcus Aurelius to Constantine (1965)par E. R. Dodds
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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. An interesting and quite well-written, though ultimately unconvincing, work, Pagan and Christian in an Age of Anxiety brings together a series of four lectures given by E.R. Dodds on the subject of religious experience between about 161 and 312CE. That Dodds was writing in the 1960s is readily apparent—he draws almost exclusively on literary material in order to make a case about religious experience (ignoring what is surely a wealth of epigraphic material!), and he interprets the evidence largely through a Freudian lens. He elucidates beautifully the ways in which Christian and polytheist Neo-Platonists influenced and drew on one another, but in the light of more recent scholarship which has reassessed the nature and the vigour of polytheism in the Later Roman Empire, Dodds' thesis (that an enervated polytheism couldn't resist Christianity's innovations and energy) is ultimately unconvincing. This is a series of lectures (4) on various aspects of Christian Pagan spirituality. It has a rambling quality that often fails to satisfy, however there are gems and wry comments sprinkled throughout. The method of comparison is one of textual literary analysis, something that might seem a little old-fashioned especially when one considers how little of the writings of Late Antiquity has come down to us. (Ie, you can't make generalizations on religious behavior with such scanty evidence.) Get it for its fluent discussion of various Christian sects and their silliness (the author is an admitted agnostic). aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Appartient à la série éditorialeThe Wiles Lectures (1963)
Le theme aborde par E. R. Dodds dans cet ouvrage - la transition du paganisme au christianisme de Marc Aurele a Constantin - est de ceux auxquels on revient indefiniment, car il reste, malgre tout, le grand mystere: pourquoi et comment des paiens cultives de ce temps, qui avaient, en somme, une religion quasi monotheiste, une morale en substance peu differente de la notre - il suffit de lire Libanius -, un tresor de culture infiniment superieur a tout ce que pouvaient offrir les chretiens, pourquoi, dis-je, et comment ces paiens ont-ils pu devenir chretiens? Laissons la question en repos. . A. J. Festugiere Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Google Books — Chargement... GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)291.4Religions Other Religions Comparative Religion; Mythology (No Longer Used) Religious experience, life, practiceClassification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne:
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