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Un certain nombre d'intellectuels païens de l'Antiquité tardive (IVe et Ve siècles) avaient entrepris une guerre à mots couverts contre la pensée chrétienne en train de s’installer. Cet ouvrage redessine les contours des relations polémiques entre les païens et les chrétiens sous le règne de Théodose (379-395). Au cœur de ce jeu antagoniste se place la figure complexe et polymorphe de Nicomaque Flavien senior. Les chrétiens en avaient fait l’un de leurs adversaires privilégiés. Placé par ses fonctions officielles auprès de Théodose au centre du système judiciaire, il fut un juriste avisé, rédacteur de lois pour le Prince mais aussi habile propagandiste, dans l’Histoire Auguste, de thèmes idéologiquement très proches des positions de l’aristocratie païenne, par exemple en matière de morale sexuelle ou de gestion des patrimoines. L’analyse de documents méconnus permet également de penser que l’homme fut un adepte du néoplatonisme, ce qui n’avait jamais été établi jusque-là. La crainte de la répression policière l’a conduit à crypter son message politique et religieux en recourant de manière systématique aux ressources inépuisables de l’art de la fiction. L’auteur propose au fond une analyse originale de ce qu’il appelle « le malaise païen », fondée sur le constat que les païens comme les chrétiens privilégiaient dans l’expression et la défense de leurs convictions religieuses des formes littéraires élaborées. Fiction et religion constituent ainsi deux thématiques communes à tous les intellectuels de l’époque et elles ne sauraient être dissociées dans l’approche d’une période aussi riche.

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For the early Christians, "pagan" referred to a multitude of unbelievers: Greek and Roman devotees of the Olympian gods, and "barbarians" such as Arabs and Germans with their own array of deities. But while these groups were clearly outsiders or idolaters, who and what was pagan depended on the outlook of the observer, as Christopher Jones shows in this fresh and penetrating analysis. Treating paganism as a historical construct rather than a fixed entity, Between Pagan and Christian uncovers the ideas, rituals, and beliefs that Christians and pagans shared in Late Antiquity. While the emperor Constantine's conversion in 312 was a momentous event in the history of Christianity, the new religion had been gradually forming in the Roman Empire for centuries, as it moved away from its Jewish origins and adapted to the dominant pagan culture. Early Christians drew on pagan practices and claimed important pagans as their harbingers--asserting that Plato, Virgil, and others had glimpsed Christian truths. At the same time, Greeks and Romans had encountered in Judaism observances and beliefs shared by Christians such as the Sabbath and the idea of a single, creator God. Polytheism was the most obvious feature separating paganism and Christianity, but pagans could be monotheists, and Christians could be accused of polytheism and branded as pagans. In the diverse religious communities of the Roman Empire, as Jones makes clear, concepts of divinity, conversion, sacrifice, and prayer were much more fluid than traditional accounts of early Christianity have led us to believe.

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Worshippers of the Gods shows how fourth-century Latin writers rethought traditional religion during Christianity's rise. Through five interlocking studies of inscriptions, laws, senatorial papers, and Christian polemics, it traces shifting conceptions of paganism from the Tetrarchic persecution, through Constantine's reign, to the 'disestablishment' of the Roman cults in the 380s

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