The spread of Christianity in the first four centuries : : essays in explanation / / edited by W. V. Harris.
The Spread of Christianity in the First Four Centuries: Essays in Explanation attempts to show how contemporary historical scholarship, or rather a selection of its exponents, views the perennial question why a new religion, indeed a new kind of religion, succeeded in subverting the other religions...
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| Superior document: | Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition ; 27 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden : : Brill,, [2005] ©2005 |
| Year of Publication: | 2005 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Abbreviations
- Preface
- Contributors
- I. Models of Christian Expansion
- II. Christian Expansion and Christian Ideology
- III. Thinking with Women: the Uses of the Appeal to 'Woman' in Pre-Nicene Christian Propaganda Literature
- IV. The Significance of Leadership and Organisation in the Spread of Christianity
- V. Barbarians and the Empire-Wide Spread of Christianity
- VI. Outlawing 'Magic' or Outlawing 'Religion'? Libanius and the Theodosian Code as Evidence for Legislation against 'Pagan' Practices
- VII. Pagans, Polytheists and the Pendulum
- VIII. Roman Historians and the Rise of Christianity: the School of Edward Gibbon
- Scholarly Works Referred To
- Index
- Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition.