Christians as Levites: Rethinking Early Christian Attitudes toward War and Bloodshed via Origen, Tertullian, and Augustine

This article seeks to break the scholarly deadlock regarding attitudes toward war and bloodshed held by early Christian thinkers. I argue that, whereas previous studies have attempted to fit early Christian stances into one or another "unitary-ethic" framework, the historical-textual data...

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Published in:Harvard theological review
Main Author: Weiss, Daniel H. 1957- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press [2019]
In: Harvard theological review
Year: 2019, Volume: 112, Issue: 4, Pages: 491-516
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Origenes 185-254 / Just war / Old Testament / Levite
IxTheo Classification:HB Old Testament
KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity
NCD Political ethics
Further subjects:B Augustine
B Levites
B Pacifism
B Tertullian
B Just War
B Origen
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