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Paganism --- Religion --- Paganisme --- History --- Histoire --- -Paganism --- -Civilization, Pagan --- Heathenism --- Religions --- Religion, Primitive --- Atheism --- God --- Irreligion --- Theology --- History. --- -History --- Religious history --- Civilization, Pagan --- Religion - History --- Paganism - History

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Graeco-Roman religion in its classic form was polytheistic; on the other hand, monotheistic ideas enjoyed wide currency in ancient philosophy. This contradiction provides a challenge for our understanding of ancient pagan religion. Certain forms of cult activity, including acclamations of 'one god' and the worship of Theos Hypsistos, the highest god, have sometimes been interpreted as evidence for pagan monotheism. This book discusses pagan monotheism in its philosophical and intellectual context, traces the evolution of new religious ideas in the time of the Roman empire, and evaluates the usefulness of the term 'monotheism' as a way of understanding these developments in later antiquity outside the context of Judaism and Christianity. In doing so, it establishes a new framework for understanding the relationship between polytheistic and monotheistic religious cultures between the first and fourth centuries AD.

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Le monde changea-t-il du tout au tout au cours de la période de l'Antiquité tardive après la victoire du christianisme sous l'empereur Théodose (379-395) ? Les païens ont-il assisté, passifs et résignés, à la mort lente des anciens dieux et de la vieille et brillante culture classique ? L?appréhension de cette période par la communauté scientifique des spécialistes et dans le monde plus large des lettrés et des hommes de culture subit depuis quelques années d?importantes révisions. Les formes que prit ainsi le combat des derniers païens contre le pouvoir chrétien doivent être réévaluées. Les relations entre les païens et les chrétiens dans l?Antiquité tardive ont baigné, en effet, dans un climat scandé par de multiples polémiques qui agitaient le monde des lettres mais aussi celui de l?art. Au cœur de ces débats se dégagent notamment les hautes figures de saint Augustin et de son contemporain, Nicomaque Flavien senior, auteur de la mystérieuse Histoire Auguste. Les vingt chapitres de l?ouvrage portent sur les relations paganochrétiennes aux IVe et Ve siècles un regard neuf qui insiste en particulier sur la tentative de réhabilitation des libertés perdues d?essence religieuse menée par l?aristocratie païenne de Rome au tournant de ces deux siècles cruciaux dans l?évolution du monde antique.

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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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Interest in the world of Late Antiquity is currently undergoing a significant revival, and in this provocative book, now reissued in paperback, E. R. Dodds anticipated some of the themes now engaging scholars. There is abundant material for the study of religious experience in late antiquity, and through it Professor Dodds examines, from a sociological and psychological standpoint, the personal religious attitudes and experiences common to pagans and Christians in the period between Marcus Aurelius and Constantine. He looks first at general attitudes to the world and the human condition before turning to specific types of human experience. World-hatred and asceticism, dreams and states of possession, and pagan and Christian mysticism are all discussed. Finally Dodds considers both pagan views of Christianity and Christian views of paganism as they emerge in the literature of the time. Although primarily written for social and religious historians, this study will also appeal to all those interested in the ancient world and its thought.

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