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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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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Digeser, Elizabeth DePalma, 1959-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2012.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.