There Is No Crime for Those Who Have Christ : Religious Violence in the Christian Roman Empire /

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There is no crime for those who have Christ," claimed a fifth-century zealot, neatly expressing the belief of religious extremists that righteous zeal for God trumps worldly law. This book provides an in-depth and penetrating look at religious violence and the attitudes that drove it in the Chr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gaddis, Michael, 1970-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London : University of California Press, 2005.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Violence > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Persecution.
Martyrdom.
Church history.
HISTORY > Ancient > General.
RELIGION > Christianity > History.
RELIGION > Christian Church > History.
Martyre.
Église > Histoire > 5e siecle.
Église > Histoire > 4e siecle.
Violence > Aspect religieux > Christianisme.
Persecutions.
Church history > 5th century.
Church history > 4th century.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:There is no crime for those who have Christ," claimed a fifth-century zealot, neatly expressing the belief of religious extremists that righteous zeal for God trumps worldly law. This book provides an in-depth and penetrating look at religious violence and the attitudes that drove it in the Christian Roman Empire of the fourth and fifth centuries, a unique period shaped by the marriage of Christian ideology and Roman imperial power.
Item Description:Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Princeton University, 1999.
"A Joan Palevsky Book in Classical Literature."
Physical Description:1 online resource (410 pages).
ISBN:9780520930902

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