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The development of the idea of history in antiquity /
An extensive scholarly literature, written in the past century holds that in ancient Greek and Roman thought history is understood as circular and repetitive - a consequence of their anti-temporal metaphysics - in contrast with Judaeo-Christian thought, which sees history as linear and unique - a co...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Kingston [Ont.] :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
©1982.
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| Colección: | McGill-Queen's studies in the history of ideas ;
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | An extensive scholarly literature, written in the past century holds that in ancient Greek and Roman thought history is understood as circular and repetitive - a consequence of their anti-temporal metaphysics - in contrast with Judaeo-Christian thought, which sees history as linear and unique - a consequence of their messianic and hence radically temporal theology. Gerald Press presents a more general view - that the Graeco-Roman and Judaeo-Christian cultures were fundamentally alien and opposed cultural forces and that, therefore, Christianity's victory over paganism included the replacement or supersession of one intellectual world by another - and then shows that, contrary to this view, there was substantial continuity between "pagan" and Christian ideas of history in antiquity, rather than a striking opposition between cyclic and linear patterns. He finds that the foundation of the Christian view of history as goal-directed lies in the rhetorical rather than the theological motives of early Christian writers. |
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| Notas: | Includes indexes. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 179 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-150). |
| ISBN: | 9780773563971 0773563970 |
| ISSN: | 0711-0995 ; |