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CEU Medievalia. Pagans and Christians in the Late Roman Empire

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Do the terms 'pagan' and 'Christian,' 'transition from paganism to Christianity' still hold as explanatory devices to apply to the political, religious and cultural transformation experienced Empire-wise? Revisiting 'pagans' and 'Christians' in Late Antiquity has been a fertile site of scholarship in recent years: the paradigm shift in the interpretation of the relations between 'pagans' and 'Christians' replaced the old 'conflict model' with a subtler, complex approach and triggered the upsurge of new explanatory models such as multiculturalism, cohabitation, cooperation, identity, or group cohesion. This collection of essays, inscribes itself into the revisionist discussion of pagan-Christian relations over a broad territory and time-span, the Roman Empire from the fourth to the eighth century. A set of papers argues that if 'paganism' had never been fully extirpated or denied by the multiethnic educated elite that managed the Roman Empire, 'Christianity' came to be presented by the same elite as providing a way for a wider group of people to combine true philosophy and right religion. The speed with which this happened is just as remarkable as the long persistence of paganism after the sea-change of the fourth century that made Christianity the official religion of the State. For a long time afterwards, 'pagans' and 'Christians' lived 'in between' polytheistic and monotheist traditions and disputed Classical and non-Classical legacies.

Arnobio e i culti di mistero : analisi storico-religiosa del V libro dell'Adversus Nationes.
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ISBN: 8870628582 9788870628586 Year: 1994 Volume: 10 Publisher: Roma Bretschneider

Drawing Down the Moon.Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers,and Other Pagans in America Today.Completely Revised and Updated
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ISBN: 0143038192 Year: 1979 Publisher: New York, New York the Penguin Group

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Der eine Gott und die fremden Kulte : exklusive und inklusive Tendenzen in den biblischen Gottesvorstellungen.
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ISBN: 9783788723644 3788723645 Year: 2009 Volume: 102 Publisher: Neukirchen-Vluyn Neukirchener Verlag


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La teologia delle religioni di Hans Kung : dalla salvezza dei non cristiani all'etica mondiale, 1964-1990.
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ISBN: 8810403908 9788810403907 Year: 2005 Volume: 11 Publisher: Bologna EDB


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Pagans and Philosophers : The Problem of Paganism from Augustine to Leibniz
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ISBN: 9780691176086 0691176086 1400866359 Year: 2015 Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press,

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From the turn of the fifth century to the beginning of the eighteenth, Christian writers were fascinated and troubled by the "Problem of Paganism," which this book identifies and examines for the first time. How could the wisdom and virtue of the great thinkers of antiquity be reconciled with the fact that they were pagans and, many thought, damned? Related questions were raised by encounters with contemporary pagans in northern Europe, Mongolia, and, later, America and China.Pagans and Philosophers explores how writers-philosophers and theologians, but also poets such as Dante, Chaucer, and Langland, and travelers such as Las Casas and Ricci-tackled the Problem of Paganism. Augustine and Boethius set its terms, while Peter Abelard and John of Salisbury were important early advocates of pagan wisdom and virtue. University theologians such as Aquinas, Scotus, Ockham, and Bradwardine, and later thinkers such as Ficino, Valla, More, Bayle, and Leibniz, explored the difficulty in depth. Meanwhile, Albert the Great inspired Boethius of Dacia and others to create a relativist conception of scientific knowledge that allowed Christian teachers to remain faithful Aristotelians. At the same time, early anthropologists such as John of Piano Carpini, John Mandeville, and Montaigne developed other sorts of relativism in response to the issue.A sweeping and original account of an important but neglected chapter in Western intellectual history, Pagans and Philosophers provides a new perspective on nothing less than the entire period between the classical and the modern world.

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Paganism --- Paganism. --- Philosophy and religion. --- Philosophy --- Philosophy. --- History. --- Civilization, Pagan --- Heathenism --- Religions --- Christianity and philosophy --- Religion and philosophy --- Religion --- Acts of the Apostles. --- America. --- Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius. --- Aristotelians. --- Aristotle. --- Arts Faculties. --- Asia. --- Augustine of Hippo. --- Augustine. --- Boethius. --- China. --- Chinese philosophers. --- Chinese religion. --- Christian Europe. --- Christian belief. --- Christian teachers. --- Christianity. --- Christianization. --- City of God. --- Collationes. --- Consolation of Philosophy. --- Dante Alighieri. --- Early Middle Ages. --- English poets. --- Entheticus de dogmate philosophorum. --- Epicurus. --- Europe. --- Geoffrey Chaucer. --- Giovanni Boccaccio. --- Gottfried Willhelm Leibniz. --- Hell. --- Historical Synthesis. --- John of Piano Carpini. --- John of Salisbury. --- Long Middle Ages. --- Middle Ages. --- Mongols. --- Peter Abelard. --- Policraticus. --- Problem of Paganism. --- Roman history. --- The Book of John Mandeville. --- Theologia Christiana. --- Theologia Summi Boni. --- University of Oxford. --- University of Paris. --- Western Europe. --- Willehalm. --- William Langland. --- William of Rubruk. --- ancient models and language. --- ancient paganism. --- ancient pagans. --- classical antiquity. --- contemporary pagans. --- early medieval scholars. --- encyclopaedic tradition. --- higher education. --- humanism. --- knowledge. --- modernity. --- pagan culture. --- pagan knowledge. --- pagan salvation. --- pagan society. --- pagan virtue. --- pagan wisdom. --- paganism. --- pagans. --- philosophy. --- relativism. --- sack of Rome. --- salvation. --- theological challenges. --- theological problems. --- theoretical developments. --- universities. --- university theologians. --- unknown pagan peoples. --- virtue. --- virtuous pagans. --- wisdom.


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Drawing down the moon: witches, druids, goddess-worshippers and other pagans in America today
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ISBN: 0807032379 Year: 1979 Publisher: Boston Beacon Press


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The Rise of Christianity : A Sociologist Reconsiders History
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ISBN: 0691214298 Year: 1996 Publisher: Princeton (New Jersey) Baltimore, Md. : Princeton University Press Project MUSE,

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Ch. 1 Conversion and Christian Growth 3; Ch. 2 The Class Basis of Early Christianity 29; Ch. 3 The Mission to the Jews: Why It Probably Succeeded 49; Ch. 4 Epidemics, Networks, and Conversion 73; Ch. 5 The Role of Women in Christian Growth 95 Ch. 6 Christianizing the Urban Empire: A Quantitative Approach 129; Ch. 7 Urban Chaos and Crisis: The Case of Antioch 147; Ch. 8 The Martyrs: Sacrifice as Rational Choice 163 Ch. 9 Opportunity and Organization 191; Ch. 10 A Brief Reflection on Virtue 209; Notes 217; Bibliography 223; Index 243.


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The Oxford Handbook of New Religious Movements
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Year: 2004 Publisher: New York, New York Oxford University Press, Inc.

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