Christianisme Antique

Author : Paul Mattéi
Publisher : Armand Colin
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9782200628604

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Le christianisme antique - 3e éd. by Paul Mattéi Pdf

Comment une secte périphérique s’est-elle muée en religion universelle, socle de civilisations ? Tout commence par une rupture, lente, et non voulue : le « mouvement de Jésus », né d’un judaïsme polymorphe, et lui-même divers, mit un siècle, et davantage, à s’émanciper. Jetée dans le monde hellénistico-romain, la foi nouvelle connaît la persécution et s’affronte à la culture ambiante ; elle se bâtit, sur un double plan : doctrinal (la « Grande Église » crée son orthodoxie, contre les « hérésies ») et structurel (les instances de régulation se fixent). Le IIIe siècle marque un tournant, tragique parfois : communautés plus nombreuses, plus étoffées et plus bigarrées, institutions consolidées, survenue de théologiens majeurs, champ élargi des normes disciplinaires, balbutiements d’un art. Quand Constantin se convertit, le christianisme, minoritaire, n’est plus un phénomène marginal : le bon plaisir de l’empereur ne l’a pas tiré du néant... Telle est la courbe, aléatoire, qu’entend décrire ce livre, textes à l’appui. Il le fait sans oublier qu’ici, plus qu’ailleurs peut-être, la description ne peut se déployer que sur un fond épais d’incertitudes et dans un flot pressé de remises en question. Paul MATTEI, ancien élève de l’École Normale Supérieure de Saint-Cloud, est professeur de langue et littérature latines à l’Université Lumière (Lyon 2) et conseiller scientifique de la Collection « Sources Chrétiennes ».

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004299047

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Religious Practices and Christianization of the Late Antique City (4th – 7th cent.) by Anonim Pdf

Religious Practices and Christianization of the Late Antique City studies the phenomenon of the Christianization of the Roman Empire within the context of the transformations and eventual decline of the Greco-Roman city.

Author : Maurice F. Wiles,Edward Yarnold,Paul M. Parvis
Publisher : Peeters Publishers
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Asceticism
ISBN : 9042908815

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Biblica by Maurice F. Wiles,Edward Yarnold,Paul M. Parvis Pdf

Author : Lisa Kaaren Bailey
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472519061

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The Religious Worlds of the Laity in Late Antique Gaul by Lisa Kaaren Bailey Pdf

Christianity in the late antique world was not imposed but embraced, and the laity were not passive members of their religion but had a central role in its creation. This volume explores the role of the laity in Gaul, bringing together the fields of history, archaeology and theology. First, this book follows the ways in which clergy and monks tried to shape and manufacture lay religious experience. They had themselves constructed the category of 'the laity', which served as a negative counterpart to their self-definition. Lay religious experience was thus shaped in part by this need to create difference between categories. The book then focuses on how the laity experienced their religion, how they interpreted it and how their decisions shaped the nature of the Church and of their faith. This part of the study pays careful attention to the diversity of the laity in this period, their religious environments, ritual engagement, behaviours, knowledge and beliefs. The first volume to examine laity in this period in Gaul – a key region for thinking about the transition from Roman rule to post-Roman society – The Religious Worlds of the Laity in Late Antique Gaul fills an important gap in current literature.

Author : Jan N. Bremmer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110376999

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Initiation into the Mysteries of the Ancient World by Jan N. Bremmer Pdf

The ancient Mysteries have long attracted the interest of scholars, an interest that goes back at least to the time of the Reformation. After a period of interest around the turn of the twentieth century, recent decades have seen an important study of Walter Burkert (1987). Yet his thematic approach makes it hard to see how the actual initiation into the Mysteries took place. To do precisely that is the aim of this book. It gives a ‘thick description’ of the major Mysteries, not only of the famous Eleusinian Mysteries, but also those located at the interface of Greece and Anatolia: the Mysteries of Samothrace, Imbros and Lemnos as well as those of the Corybants. It then proceeds to look at the Orphic-Bacchic Mysteries, which have become increasingly better understood due to the many discoveries of new texts in the recent times. Having looked at classical Greece we move on to the Roman Empire, where we study not only the lesser Mysteries, which we know especially from Pausanias, but also the new ones of Isis and Mithras. We conclude our book with a discussion of the possible influence of the Mysteries on emerging Christianity. Its detailed references and up-to-date bibliography will make this book indispensable for any scholar interested in the Mysteries and ancient religion, but also for those scholars who work on initiation or esoteric rituals, which were often inspired by the ancient Mysteries.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 579 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2010-05-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789047444534

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Religious Diversity in Late Antiquity by Anonim Pdf

This volume in the ongoing Late Antique Archaeology series draws on material and textual evidence to explore the diverse religious world of Late Antiquity. Subjects include Jews and Samaritans, orthodoxy and heresy, pilgrimage, stylites, magic, the sacred and the secular.

Author : Michel Fédou,Sj Fedou
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780813231716

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The Fathers of the Church in Christian Theology by Michel Fédou,Sj Fedou Pdf

Author : Jacob Neusner
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2004-07-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725211278

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Christianity, Judaism and Other Greco-Roman Cults, Part 2 by Jacob Neusner Pdf

The editor hopes that these papers, on themes of interest to Morton Smith, will contribute to the critical discussion of some problems of concern to him. Since Smith is one of the great scholarly masters of this generation, it is through scholarship, and not through encomia, that the editor and his colleagues choose to pay their tribute. The facts about the man, his writings, his critical judgment, intelligence, erudition and wit, his labor as selfless teacher and objective, profound critic speak for themselves and require no embellishment.... I hope that the quality of what follows will impress my teacher, Professor Morton Smith, and those scholars who care to read these volumes, as having been worth the immense efforts of all concerned. From the Foreword by Jacob Neusner

Author : Matthieu Pignot
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004431904

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The Catechumenate in Late Antique Africa (4th -6th centuries) by Matthieu Pignot Pdf

In The Catechumenate in Late Antique Africa, Matthieu Pignot offers the first historical study of the progressive integration of converts into Christianity as catechumens in late antique African sources, from Augustine of Hippo to 6th-century letters.

Author : Carlos Machado
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192571953

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Urban Space and Aristocratic Power in Late Antique Rome by Carlos Machado Pdf

Between 270 and 535 AD the city of Rome experienced dramatic changes. The once glorious imperial capital was transformed into the much humbler centre of western Christendom in a process that redefined its political importance, size, and identity. Urban Space and Aristocratic Power in Late Antique Rome examines these transformations by focusing on the city's powerful elite, the senatorial aristocracy, and exploring their involvement in a process of urban change that would mark the end of the ancient world and the birth of the Middle Ages in the eyes of contemporaries and modern scholars. It argues that the late antique history of Rome cannot be described as merely a product of decline; instead, it was a product of the dynamic social and cultural forces that made the city relevant at a time of unprecedented historical changes. Combining the city's unique literary, epigraphic, and archaeological record, the volume offers a detailed examination of aspects of city life as diverse as its administration, public building, rituals, housing, and religious life to show how the late Roman aristocracy gave a new shape and meaning to urban space, identifying itself with the largest city in the Mediterranean world to an extent unparalleled since the end of the Republican period.

Author : Richard A. Layton
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Bible
ISBN : 0252028813

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Didymus the Blind and His Circle in Late-antique Alexandria by Richard A. Layton Pdf

This is the first comprehensive study in the English language of the commentaries of Didymus the Blind, who was revered as the foremost Christian scholar of the fourth century and an influential spiritual director of ascetics. The writings of Didymus were censored and destroyed due to his posthumous condemnation for heresy. This study recovers the uncensored voice of Didymus through the commentaries among the Tura papyri, a massive set of documents discovered in an Egyptian quarry in 1941. This neglected corpus offers an unprecedented glimpse into the internal workings of a Christian philosophical academy in the most vibrant and tumultuous cultural center of late antiquity. By exploring the social context of Christian instruction in the competitive environment of fourth-century Alexandria, Richard A. Layton elucidates the political implications of biblical interpretation. Through detailed analysis of the commentaries on Psalms, Job, and Genesis, the author charts a profound tectonic shift in moral imagination as classical ethical vocabulary becomes indissolubly bound to biblical narrative. Attending to the complex interactions of political competition and intellectual inquiry, this study makes a unique contribution to the cultural history of late antiquity.

Author : Salvatore Cosentino
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110684438

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Ravenna and the Traditions of Late Antique and Early Byzantine Craftsmanship by Salvatore Cosentino Pdf

In the last twenty years scholarship on late antique and early medieval Ravenna has resulted in a certain number of publications mainly focused on the fields of architecture, mosaics and archaeology. On the contrary, much less attention has been paid on labour – both manual and intellectual – as well as the structure of production and objects derived from manufacturing activities, despite the fact that Ravenna is the place which preserves the highest number of historical evidence among all centres of the late Roman Mediterranean. Its cultural heritage is vast and composite, ranging from papyri to inscriptions, from ivories to marbles, as well as luxury objects, pottery, and coins. Starting from concrete typologies of hand-manufactured goods existing in the Ravennate milieu, the book aims at exploring the multifaceted traditions of late antique and early Byzantine handicraft from the fourth to the eighth century AD. Its perspective is to pay attention more on patronage, social taste, acculturation, workers and the economic industry of production which supported the demand, circulation and distribution of artefacts, than on the artistic evaluation of the objects themselves.

Author : Jacob Neusner
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2024-01-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004667136

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Christianity, Judaism and Other Greco-Roman Cults by Jacob Neusner Pdf

The editor hopes that these papers, on themes of interest to Morton Smith, will contribute to the critical discussion of some problems of concern to him. Since Smith is one of the great scholarly masters of this generation, it is through scholarship, and not through encomia, that the editor and his colleagues choose to pay their tribute. The facts about the man, his writings, his critical judgment, intelligence, erudition and wit, his labor as selfless teacher and objective, profound critic speak for themselves and require no embellishment.... I hope that the quality of what follows will impress my teacher, Professor Morton Smith, and those scholars who care to read these volumes, as having been worth the immense efforts of all concerned. From the Foreword by Jacob Neusner

Author : Jean-Claude Guillebaud
Publisher : Algora Publishing
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Civilization
ISBN : 9781892941336

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Re-Founding The World by Jean-Claude Guillebaud Pdf

"[A leading French Christian writer,] Guillebaud leads the search for the Greek, Jewish and Christian roots of our fundamental Western values. . . an erudite and frank analysis of the perverse trends that undermine morality today and calls for a revolutio.

Author : Willy Rordorf
Publisher : Liturgical Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2001-06
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0814660339

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The Eucharist of the Early Christians by Willy Rordorf Pdf

We can rediscover ourselves in the faith and hope of the early Christians. These ancient (first through fourth century) writings describe the richness of the Eucharist as it was experienced and lived at that time. Included in this volume are excerpts from the Didache, Clement of Rome, Ignatius of Antioch, Justin, Clement of Alexandria, Tertullian, Origen, and more, all commented on by a leading liturgical historian.