A Threat to Public Piety : Christians, Platonists, and the Great Persecution /
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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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2012.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : from permeable circles to hardened boundaries
- Ammonius Saccas and the philosophy without conflicts
- Origen as a student of Ammonius
- Plotinus, Porphyry, and philosophy in the public realm
- Schism in the Ammonian community : Porphyry v. Iamblichus
- Schism in the Ammonian community : Porphyry v. Methodius of Olympus
- Conclusion : the Ammonian community and the great persecution.