Inventing Superstition : : From the Hippocratics to the Christians /

Inventing Superstition : : From the Hippocratics to the Christians / / Dale B. Martin.

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The Roman author Pliny the Younger characterizes Christianity as "contagious superstition"; two centuries later the Christian writer Eusebius vigorously denounces Greek and Roman religions as vain and impotent "superstitions." The term of abuse is the same, yet the two writers su...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada)
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Martin, Dale B.,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2022]
©2004
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (319 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • 1 Superstitious Christians
  • 2 Problems of Definition
  • 3 Inventing Deisidaimonia
  • 4 Dealing with Disease
  • 5 Solidifying a New Sensibility
  • 6 Diodorus Siculus and the Failure of Philosophy
  • 7 Cracks in the Philosophical System
  • 8 Galen on the Necessity of Nature and the Theology of Teleology
  • 9 Roman Superstitio and Roman Power
  • 10 Celsus and the Attack on Christianity
  • 11 Origen and the Defense of Christianity
  • 12 The Philosophers Turn
  • 13 Turning the Tables
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index

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