One God: Pagan Monotheism in the Roman Empire. Edited by Stephen Mitchell and Peter Van Nuffelen
This excellent volume is the second to emerge from a research project, directed by Stephen Mitchell at Exeter University, on the intellectual background to pagan monotheism. It addresses two broad questions. How should we define ‘pagan monotheism’, and how useful is the concept for illuminating reli...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2011
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2011, Volume: 62, Issue: 1, Pages: 337-339 |
| Review of: | One god (Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge University Press, 2010) (Morgan, Teresa)
One god (Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010) (Morgan, Teresa) One god (Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge University Press, 2010) (Morgan, Teresa) |
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| Summary: | This excellent volume is the second to emerge from a research project, directed by Stephen Mitchell at Exeter University, on the intellectual background to pagan monotheism. It addresses two broad questions. How should we define ‘pagan monotheism’, and how useful is the concept for illuminating religious developments in the first four centuries ad? And can we classify significant aspects of pagan cultic activity during this period as monotheistic?, Peter Van Nuffelen begins with a theoretical investigation of the definition of monotheism and its applicability to Greco-Roman religions. (It is ironic, he observes, that classicists are becoming seriously interested in monotheism just as biblical scholars and theologians are questioning the aptness of the term for Judaism and Christianity. |
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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/flq147 |