There Is no Crime for Those who Have Christ: Religious Violence in the Christian Roman Empire. By Michael Gaddis. Pp. xiv + 396. (Transformation of the Classical Heritage.) Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 2005. isbn 0 520 24104 5. £32.50
Religious violence has been so common throughout human history that many sceptical historians from Edward Gibbon onwards have concluded that both violent feelings towards fellow human beings and violent actions are an unavoidable concomitant of belief in a transcendent God—and hence that the high in...
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2006
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2006, Volume: 57, Issue: 2, Pages: 720-725 |
| Review of: | There Is No Crime for Those Who Have Christ (Berkeley : University of California Press, 2005) (Barnes, T. D.)
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| Summary: | Religious violence has been so common throughout human history that many sceptical historians from Edward Gibbon onwards have concluded that both violent feelings towards fellow human beings and violent actions are an unavoidable concomitant of belief in a transcendent God—and hence that the high incidence of violence in the history of the Christian Church and Islam provides a good reason for questioning the truth of Christian and Muslim claims about their allegedly merciful God. Of course, many Christians through the ages have been willing to die rather than kill or injure others, while the early Christians advocated toleration, as persecuted minorities of any sort almost always do. |
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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/fll082 |