Between Pagan and Christian. By Christopher P. Jones
There is much to appreciate in this thoughtful, well-written, and balanced work on the ways in which ancient men and women approached what we moderns call religion. Taking his cue from recent research that has moved away from the post-World War II scholarship that cast pagan-Christian relations in a...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2020
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2020, Volume: 71, Issue: 2, Pages: 895-898 |
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| Summary: | There is much to appreciate in this thoughtful, well-written, and balanced work on the ways in which ancient men and women approached what we moderns call religion. Taking his cue from recent research that has moved away from the post-World War II scholarship that cast pagan-Christian relations in accord with the social conflict model, Jones instead examines what ancients shared and thought when they practised religion. Jones describes not just the rites but also the ideas that were demonstrably important to Greeks and Romans living in the Roman Empire. This book thus admirably provides one set of concise, coherent answers to key issues in ancient history and religion: why did Christianity spread? What difference did it make, if any, to Greeks and Romans in the Roman Empire? How and why did traditional religion, what Christians called paganism, persist? The answers to these questions emerge over a series of 11 succinct chapters. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flaa121 |