Early Christian Attitudes to War, Violence and Military Service / / Despina Iosif.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2013
• VerfasserIn: Iosif, Despina,
• Place / Publishing House: Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Gorgias Studies in Classical and Late Antiquity
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (402 p.)

The early Christians were not of one mind when it came to war, violence and military service. There was a bewildering variety of opinion as to how they understood their place in the world. It seems however that generally they did not stand apart from society. On the contrary, they were happy to integrate and conform and they often accepted war and service in the army as activities which did not raise specific ethical problems.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. JESUS AND THE EVANGELISTS OR LOVE YOUR ENEMIES -- 3. POSITIVE SOURCES -- 4. THE SILENT SOURCES. FROM HIM COME THE KINGS AND THE RULERS AND THE GOVERNORS -- 5. DILEMMAS FOR THOSE WHO STRIVE FOR PERFECTION OR TO SERVE OR NOT TO SERVE? OR BREAK OFF THE TIES THAT BIND AND ENTANGLE YOU IN THIS WORLD -- 6. NEGATIVE SOURCES -- 7. COUNCILS OR THOSE WHO THROW AWAY THEIR ARMS IN TIMES OF PEACE SHOULD BE KEPT FROM COMMUNION -- 8. EPILOGUE -- 9. BIBLIOGRAPHY -- 10. APPENDIX A. OTHER POSSIBLE EPIGRAPHICAL EVIDENCE -- 11. APPENDIX B. A SELECTION OF THE SOURCES DISCUSSED -- INDEX