A Threat to Public Piety : : Christians, Platonists, and the Great Persecution / / Elizabeth DePalma Digeser.
In A Threat to Public Piety, Elizabeth DePalma Digeser reexamines the origins of the Great Persecution (AD 303-313), the last eruption of pagan violence against Christians before Constantine enforced the toleration of Christianity within the Empire. Challenging the widely accepted view that the pers...
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Digeser, Elizabeth DePalma, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut A Threat to Public Piety : Christians, Platonists, and the Great Persecution / Elizabeth DePalma Digeser. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2012] ©2012 1 online resource (240 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: From Permeable Circles to Hardened Boundaries -- 1. Ammonius Saccas and the Philosophy without Conflicts -- 2. Origen as a Student of Ammonius -- 3. Plotinus, Porphyry, and Philosophy in the Public Realm -- 4. Schism in the Ammonian Community: Porphyry v. Iamblichus -- 5. Schism in the Ammonian Community: Porphyry v. Methodius of Olympus -- Conclusion: The Ammonian Community and the Great Persecution -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star In A Threat to Public Piety, Elizabeth DePalma Digeser reexamines the origins of the Great Persecution (AD 303-313), the last eruption of pagan violence against Christians before Constantine enforced the toleration of Christianity within the Empire. Challenging the widely accepted view that the persecution enacted by Emperor Diocletian was largely inevitable, she points out that in the forty years leading up to the Great Persecution Christians lived largely in peace with their fellow Roman citizens. Why, Digeser asks, did pagans and Christians, who had intermingled cordially and productively for decades, become so sharply divided by the turn of the century?Making use of evidence that has only recently been dated to this period, Digeser shows that a falling out between Neo-Platonist philosophers, specifically Iamblichus and Porphyry, lit the spark that fueled the Great Persecution. In the aftermath of this falling out, a group of influential pagan priests and philosophers began writing and speaking against Christians, urging them to forsake Jesus-worship and to rejoin traditional cults while Porphyry used his access to Diocletian to advocate persecution of Christians on the grounds that they were a source of impurity and impiety within the empire.The first book to explore in depth the intellectual social milieu of the late third century, A Threat to Public Piety revises our understanding of the period by revealing the extent to which Platonist philosophers (Ammonius, Plotinus, Porphyry, and Iamblichus) and Christian theologians (Origen, Eusebius) came from a common educational tradition, often studying and teaching side by side in heterogeneous groups. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022) Christianity Philosophy History. Church history Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600. Persecution History Early church, ca. 30-600. Philosophy and religion. Platonists. Violence Philosophy. Violence Religious aspects. Ancient History & Classical Studies. History. Religious Studies. HISTORY / Ancient / Rome. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013 9783110536157 print 9780801441813 https://doi.org/10.7591/9780801463969 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780801463969 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780801463969/original |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: From Permeable Circles to Hardened Boundaries -- 1. Ammonius Saccas and the Philosophy without Conflicts -- 2. Origen as a Student of Ammonius -- 3. Plotinus, Porphyry, and Philosophy in the Public Realm -- 4. Schism in the Ammonian Community: Porphyry v. Iamblichus -- 5. Schism in the Ammonian Community: Porphyry v. Methodius of Olympus -- Conclusion: The Ammonian Community and the Great Persecution -- Bibliography -- Index |
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