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Elizabeth Depalma Digeser - A Threat to Public Piety: Christians, Platonists, and the Great Persecution - 9780801441813 - V9780801441813
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A Threat to Public Piety: Christians, Platonists, and the Great Persecution

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Description for A Threat to Public Piety: Christians, Platonists, and the Great Persecution Hardback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: HBLA; HRCC1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 157 x 24. Weight in Grams: 482.

In A Threat to Public Piety, Elizabeth DePalma Digeser reexamines the origins of the Great Persecution (AD 303–313), the last eruption of pagan violence against Christians before Constantine enforced the toleration of Christianity within the Empire. Challenging the widely accepted view that the persecution enacted by Emperor Diocletian was largely inevitable, she points out that in the forty years leading up to the Great Persecution Christians lived largely in peace with their fellow Roman citizens. Why, Digeser asks, did pagans and Christians, who had intermingled cordially and productively for decades, become so sharply divided by the turn of the century?... Read more

The first book to explore in depth the intellectual social milieu of the late third century, A Threat to Public Piety revises our understanding of the period by revealing the extent to which Platonist philosophers (Ammonius, Plotinus, Porphyry, and Iamblichus) and Christian theologians (Origen, Eusebius) came from a common educational tradition, often studying and teaching side by side in heterogeneous groups.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801441813
SKU
V9780801441813
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About Elizabeth Depalma Digeser
Elizabeth DePalma Digeser is Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of The Making of a Christian Empire: Lactantius and Rome, also from Cornell.

Reviews for A Threat to Public Piety: Christians, Platonists, and the Great Persecution
"Occasionally in every generation a few books may be published that refreshingly redirect scholarship in their respective areas of expertise. This book by Elizabeth DePalma Digeser indisputably falls into that categoryowing to the fact that she has done something that no one has done beforenamely analyzing the works of ArnobiusLactantiusand Eusibius together to show how their common themes reveal a ... Read more

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