E. A. Judge

On This Rock

When Culture Disrupted the Roman Community

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The command of the risen Christ was to make students of all nations: On this Rock I will build . . . But the spread of the Pentecostal gospel disrupted the national values of eternal Rome, with her increasingly international citizenship. Loyalty to the Caesars, obligatory in the Roman world, could not break the Christians' trust in their Christ. In despair the government gave in to the unimaginable: Galerius tolerated the Christian alternative communities and their divergent outlook on life. One must now tolerate living in two incommensurate communities at once. This is at the heart of Late Antiquity. The Rock remains, but masked in the antiq… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Macdonald, A. D. (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-1-72526-039-9
EAN: 9781725260399
Produktnummer: 35071883
Verlag: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Seitenangabe: 280 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 3'060 KB

Über den Autor

Edwin A. Judge is Emeritus Professor of History at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. As well as tracing the imprint of Paul in our culture, he is publishing a documentary series on The Failure of Augustus and on Papyri from the Rise of Christianity in Egypt. All knowledge of what has actually happened arises from such documentation.