Impulsore Chresto: opposition to christianity in the Roman Empire c. 50 - 250 AD
Impulsore Chresto reassesses opposition to Christianity AD 50-250. The Roman authorities' persecutions have caught the attention of both the public, intrigued by martyrs, and scholars, arguing that executions were relatively rare. The latter is not challenged, but the executions are placed in c...
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| Zusammenfassung: | Impulsore Chresto reassesses opposition to Christianity AD 50-250. The Roman authorities' persecutions have caught the attention of both the public, intrigued by martyrs, and scholars, arguing that executions were relatively rare. The latter is not challenged, but the executions are placed in context as the most dramatic aspect of a spectrum of opposition including rumors, polemic, harassment and accusations. Such opposition was taken for granted and rarely described. But studying the preserved texts on trials against Christians it appears that even here the roles of relatives, plaintiffs, spectators or local officials were crucial. There were as many reasons for opposition as opponents, but some motives reappear in clusters: Christians were perceived as superstitious and ungodly, as endangering peace with the gods and social order. |
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| adam_text | Contents
Acknowledgements
Part I: Introduction
Chapter
Questions concerning opposition to Christianity in the
Roman Empire AD
A spectrum of opposition, a spectrum of opponents
The thematic, geographic and chronologic frame of the
study
Terms, theory and approaches
Formalism and substantivism
Worlds and systems
Pagans and converts
Motives
Approaching opposition
Approaching opposition, opponents and the motives of
opponents
Realistic hostility, xenophobic hostility and chimerical
hostility
Approaching ancient Christianity and the early Church
From Jewish sect to a new (independent religion
The church as an imagined community
Christianity: Between diversity and unity
Principles for defining and demarcating a world or a
system
Autopoiesis
Conclusion to our approach to Christianity in the Roman
Empire
Chapter
Source material
Christian material from the period
The Pauline epistles
Other epistles
The Acts of the Apostles
Imperial rescripts concerning Christians
Tacitus and Suetonius references to Christians
Accounts of martyrdom
Research and methods: Accounts of martyrdom
Contemporary accounts of martyrdom,
The Martyrdom of Polycarp
6 Contents
The martyrdom of Justin and Companions
The Martyrs in
The Acts of the Scillitan Martyrs
The Martyrdom of
Celsus
The scholarly debate
Recent perspectives from the study of Greco-Roman
religions
Persecution and other kinds of opposition
The debate concerning the legal basis for persecution
The debate concerning the motives of Roman authorities
The limited debate concerning private opposition to
Christianity
Part II: Opposition and opponents
Chapter
role of Nero
Scholarly tradition, approaches to early Christian texts and
the role of Nero
Limited scholarly use of early Christian texts for examining
contemporary opposition
Christian apologetic tradition, historical scholarship and
Nero s persecution
A new thesis concerning opposition and opponents
с
Claudius, the Jews and the Christians of Rome
Dating Claudius edict
One or two Claudian (anti-)Jewish edicts?
Were there Christians in Rome in the 40 s?
Impulsore Chresto!
Limited or general expulsion?
Development in the imperial authorities awareness of
Christianity from Claudius to Nero
Suetonius: evidence from imperial archives?
Nero as the first persecutor?
Chapter
epistles
Opposition and opponents in Thessalonica
Opposition in the epistles: Opposition as a natural
condition for God s elect
Opponents in the epistles: Pagans
Not an isolated event
Contents 7
Luke s narrative of pagan opposition to Paul s mission in
Thessalonica
The motives of the opponents according to Luke
Opposition and opponents in Corinth and in Paul s
Corinthian Epistles
The relationship between Christians and local Corinthian
authorities according to Paul
Luke s account of Paul s appearance before Gallio
Paul s catalog of hardships and his opponents in Second
Corinthians
Paul s catalog of sufferings and Luke s accounts of
opposition to Paul in
Luke s narrative of the stoning of Paul at
The motives of the hostile crowd in
Luke
Luke s narrative about the imprisonment of Paul and
Silas in Philippi
Luke and personal motives for the opposition to Paul and
Silas in Philippi
The motives of the hostile crowd and the hostile local
officials in Luke s account
Opposition and opponents in the Prison Epistles
Prison epistles and the debate concerning authenticity of
Pauline letters
Paul s imprisonment and its implications
Paul s sufferings as consolation for contemporary
readers
The exhortation to obedience in Paul s Epistle to the
Romans and its implications
The exhortation, contemporary Christians and Roman
authorities
The context of the exhortation, forgive your enemies and
leave vengeance to God!
Conclusion: Opposition and opponents before year
Chapter
texts
Opposition and opponents in the Second Epistle to
Timothy
Suffering in chains like a criminal
Suffering at the hands of Roman authorities and setting an
example
Popular opponents of Paul and Christians
8
Opposition in the First Epistle to Timothy and the Epistle to
Titos
The exhortations to obedience as a response to xenophobic
hostility
The exhortations to obedience as a response to realistic
hostility
Opposition and opponents in the First Epistle of Peter
Some problematic attempts at dating the letter
The reaction of Christians in Asia Minor to opposition
The exhortation to be obedient to authorities and its
implications
The exhortation to be obedient to masters and husbands
and its implications
Opposition and the Christian way of life
Opposition to the ungodly Christians
The connection between ungodliness and immorality
Opposition and opponents in the Epistle to the Hebrews
Hebrews as contemporary evidence of the presumed
Domitian persecution?
Opposition from authorities according to the Epistle to
the Hebrews
Being Christian and being opposed
Opposition in the First Epistle of Clement and a conclusion
on opposition
Another spurious dating
The real opponents of Christians according to First
Clement
Conclusion
opponents
Part III: Opposition and opponents
Chapter
Pliny and Trajan
112
The legal questions and the exchange of letters between
Pliny and Trajan
The innocent, obstinate and repentant, and Pliny s doubt
Three agents opposing Christianity in Bithynia-Pontus in
112
Plaintiffs and informants
The motives of the plaintiffs
Did the accusations for
edict? re
Contents 9
The regional
The central Roman authority
Motives for the Roman authorities opposition according
to Pliny s letter
The motives of the authorities: Christian vices?
The motives of the authorities: Christian obstinacy?
The motives of the authorities: Were Christians seen as
ungodly?
The motives of the authorities: Were Christians seen as
superstitious?
Conclusion: Opposition and opponents according to Pliny
and Trajan
Did these letters set precedence for legal prosecution of
Christians?
Hadrian s rescript
123-124
Opposition and opponents in Hadrian s rescript
Hadrian s rescript
Christians?
Hadrian s intentions
The authenticity of the rescript and its similarity to
Trajan s guidelines
Chapter
Lucian
Reactions to Christianity according to Tacitus and
Suetonius
Christianity as a superstition
Tacitus, Suetonius or their sources assessment of
Christians?
Tacitus and Suetonius judgements of Christianity as a
superstition
Suetonius and Tacitus concept of superstition: The Jews as
superstitious
Suetonius and Tacitus concept of superstition:
Superstition, ungodliness
Aggravating circumstances in Christian superstition,
according to Tacitus
Pious or bad motives for persecuting the Christians,
according to Tacitus
The traditional religiousness of Tacitus
Opposition to Christians according to
Lucian s assessement of Christians as superstitious and
ungodly
10 Contents
Lucian s narrative
ungodliness
Chapter
martyrdom ^
Opposition and opponents in the account of Polycarp s
martyrdom
Polycarp s martyr death and the execution of Jesus
Opposition by the Roman governor in the Province of
Asia
Local opponents in Smyrna c.
The governor s opposition and its dissimilarity to the
guidelines of Trajan
Poly carp and the local authorities in Smyrna c.
Poly carp before the governor at the stadium
The hostility of the governor and his motives
The hostility of the crowd and its motives
Were the local officials portrayed as influenced by personal
motives?
Ptolemaeus and Lucius martyrdom and The Acts of Justin
A martyr narrative used for apologetic purposes
The legal prosecution of Justin and companions
Were the seven condemned because of an imperial edict
demanding sacrifice?
Rusticus sentencing of the seven for being Christians and
the motives
Other opponents
Opposition and opponents in
The local initiative to opposition in
The actions of the regional authorities in
guidelines of Trajan
The reaction of the emperor Marcus Aurelius
Punishment on the charge of being Christian
Motives for persecution: The Christians ungodliness,
immorality and superstition
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations and his motive for opposing
Christianity
Opposition and opponents in Scilli in North Africa in the
year
Instigators of opposition in Scilli in the year
The legal treatment of the accused
Specific or general motives for the persecution
The Christian rites as irreconcilable with Roman customs
Contents 11
The superstitious Christians
Immorality
Opposition and opponents in North Africa
story of
Did the emperor Septimius Severus instigate a general
persecution of Christians?
Opposition and opponents in Carthage
Perpetua s pagan father
Popular opposition to Christianity and its motives
The opposition of the regional Roman authorities
Is this account evidence that Severus persecuted converts
to Christianity?
Chapter
с
Approaching the texts of Celsus and Origin
Celsus text viewed as a relic
Origen s purpose and audience
Developments in opposition
Opposition during the time of Celsus: the second half of
the 2nd Century AD
Opposition during the time of
of the 3rd Century AD
Origen s catalog of opponents
Motives for opposing Christianity according to Celsus
criticism and Origen s reply
Is Celsus representative of pagan opposition?
Celsus criticism of the Christian community as being
insubordinate and clandestine
Origen s reply to Celsus criticism of the Christian
fellowship and community
Celsus claim that Christians were immoral
Origen s reply to Celsus criticism of Christian morality
Celsus criticism of the Christian s ungodliness
Origen s reply to Celsus criticism of the Christians
ungodliness
Celsus condemning of Christians for being superstitious
The charge of superstition and Origen s reply
Celsus charge that Christians practice sorcery
Origin s defense against the charge that Christians were
sorcerers
12
Conclusion on development in opposition and motives
с
A spectrum of opposition, a spectrum of opponents, and
a new development
Consistency in the motives of the opponents
Chapter
Conclusion
Catalog of opponents, realistic, xenophobic and chimerical
hostility
Developments in hostility and in the nature of
opposition
Dominant realistic hostility amplified by xenophobic and
chimerical tendencies
Development in the imperial role in opposition and in the
hostility of emperors
The reactive role of emperors in persecutions
The motives of emperors for opposing Christianity
Development in regional opposition and in the motives of
governors
A precedent from Pliny and Trajan? The evidence of
Tertullian
From test of disposition to the torture of obstinate
Christians
Occasional hunts for Christians
Nature of hostility and motives of regional Roman
authorities
Development in local opposition and local hostility: local
authorities and
The decisive role of locals in opposition to Christianity
The character of local opposition and the motives of
locals
The consistency of the character of hostility
Consistent chimerical hostility
Consistent realistic hostility aggravated by xenophobic
hostility
Chapter
Christianity
Part I: Introduction
Preface
Source material and scholarly debate
Contents 13
Part
Opponents and the character of opposition
The motives
Part
Opponents and the character of opposition
The motives
Bibliography
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Contents
Acknowledgements
Part I: Introduction
Chapter
Questions concerning opposition to Christianity in the
Roman Empire AD
A spectrum of opposition, a spectrum of opponents
The thematic, geographic and chronologic frame of the
study
Terms, theory and approaches
Formalism and substantivism
Worlds and systems
Pagans and converts
Motives
Approaching opposition
Approaching opposition, opponents and the motives of
opponents
Realistic hostility, xenophobic hostility and chimerical
hostility
Approaching ancient Christianity and the early Church
From Jewish sect to a new (independent religion
The church as an imagined community
Christianity: Between diversity and unity
Principles for defining and demarcating a world or a
system
Autopoiesis
Conclusion to our approach to Christianity in the Roman
Empire
Chapter
Source material
Christian material from the period
The Pauline epistles
Other epistles
The Acts of the Apostles
Imperial rescripts concerning Christians
Tacitus' and Suetonius' references to Christians
Accounts of martyrdom
Research and methods: Accounts of martyrdom
Contemporary accounts of martyrdom,
The Martyrdom of Polycarp
6 Contents
The martyrdom of Justin and Companions
The Martyrs in
The Acts of the Scillitan Martyrs
The Martyrdom of
Celsus
The scholarly debate
Recent perspectives from the study of Greco-Roman
religions
Persecution and other kinds of opposition
The debate concerning the legal basis for persecution
The debate concerning the motives of Roman authorities
The limited debate concerning private opposition to
Christianity
Part II: Opposition and opponents
Chapter
role of Nero
Scholarly tradition, approaches to early Christian texts and
the role of Nero
Limited scholarly use of early Christian texts for examining
contemporary opposition
Christian apologetic tradition, historical scholarship and
Nero's persecution
A new thesis concerning opposition and opponents
с
Claudius, the Jews and the Christians of Rome
Dating Claudius' edict
One or two Claudian (anti-)Jewish edicts?
Were there Christians in Rome in the 40's?
Impulsore Chresto!
Limited or general expulsion?
Development in the imperial authorities' awareness of
Christianity from Claudius to Nero
Suetonius: evidence from imperial archives?
Nero as the first persecutor?
Chapter
epistles
Opposition and opponents in Thessalonica
Opposition in the epistles: Opposition as a natural
condition for God's elect
Opponents in the epistles: Pagans
Not an isolated event
Contents 7
Luke's narrative of pagan opposition to Paul's mission in
Thessalonica
The motives of the opponents according to Luke
Opposition and opponents in Corinth and in Paul's
Corinthian Epistles
The relationship between Christians and local Corinthian
authorities according to Paul
Luke's account of Paul's appearance before Gallio
Paul's catalog of hardships and his opponents in Second
Corinthians
Paul's catalog of sufferings and Luke's accounts of
opposition to Paul in
Luke's narrative of the stoning of Paul at
The motives of the hostile crowd in
Luke
Luke's narrative about the imprisonment of Paul and
Silas in Philippi
Luke and personal motives for the opposition to Paul and
Silas in Philippi
The motives of the hostile crowd and the hostile local
officials in Luke's account
Opposition and opponents in the Prison Epistles
Prison epistles and the debate concerning authenticity of
Pauline letters
Paul's imprisonment and its implications
Paul's sufferings as consolation for contemporary
readers
The exhortation to obedience in Paul's Epistle to the
Romans and its implications
The exhortation, contemporary Christians and Roman
authorities
The context of the exhortation, forgive your enemies and
leave vengeance to God!
Conclusion: Opposition and opponents before year
Chapter
texts
Opposition and opponents in the Second Epistle to
Timothy
Suffering in chains like a criminal
Suffering at the hands of Roman authorities and setting an
example
Popular opponents of Paul and Christians
8
Opposition in the First Epistle to Timothy and the Epistle to
Titos
The exhortations to obedience as a response to xenophobic
hostility
The exhortations to obedience as a response to realistic
hostility
Opposition and opponents in the First Epistle of Peter
Some problematic attempts at dating the letter
The reaction of Christians in Asia Minor to opposition
The exhortation to be obedient to authorities and its
implications
The exhortation to be obedient to masters and husbands
and its implications
Opposition and the Christian way of life
Opposition to the ungodly Christians
The connection between ungodliness and immorality
Opposition and opponents in the Epistle to the Hebrews
Hebrews as contemporary evidence of the presumed
Domitian persecution?
Opposition from authorities according to the Epistle to
the Hebrews
Being Christian and being opposed
Opposition in the First Epistle of Clement and a conclusion
on opposition
Another spurious dating
The real opponents of Christians according to First
Clement
Conclusion
opponents
Part III: Opposition and opponents
Chapter
Pliny and Trajan
112
The legal questions and the exchange of letters between
Pliny and Trajan
The innocent, obstinate and repentant, and Pliny's doubt
Three agents opposing Christianity in Bithynia-Pontus in
112
Plaintiffs and informants
The motives of the plaintiffs
Did the accusations for
edict? re
Contents 9
The regional
The central Roman authority
Motives for the Roman authorities' opposition according
to Pliny's letter
The motives of the authorities: Christian vices?
The motives of the authorities: Christian obstinacy?
The motives of the authorities: Were Christians seen as
ungodly?
The motives of the authorities: Were Christians seen as
superstitious?
Conclusion: Opposition and opponents according to Pliny
and Trajan
Did these letters set precedence for legal prosecution of
Christians?
Hadrian's rescript
123-124
Opposition and opponents in Hadrian's rescript
Hadrian's rescript
Christians?
Hadrian's intentions
The authenticity of the rescript and its similarity to
Trajan's guidelines
Chapter
Lucian
Reactions to Christianity according to Tacitus and
Suetonius
Christianity as a superstition
Tacitus, Suetonius or their sources' assessment of
Christians?
Tacitus and Suetonius' judgements of Christianity as a
superstition
Suetonius and Tacitus' concept of superstition: The Jews as
superstitious
Suetonius and Tacitus' concept of superstition:
Superstition, ungodliness
Aggravating circumstances in Christian superstition,
according to Tacitus
Pious or bad motives for persecuting the Christians,
according to Tacitus
The traditional religiousness of Tacitus
Opposition to Christians according to
Lucian's assessement of Christians as superstitious and
ungodly
10 Contents
Lucian's narrative
ungodliness
Chapter
martyrdom ^
Opposition and opponents in the account of Polycarp's
martyrdom
Polycarp's martyr death and the execution of Jesus
Opposition by the Roman governor in the Province of
Asia
Local opponents in Smyrna c.
The governor's opposition and its dissimilarity to the
guidelines of Trajan
Poly carp and the local authorities in Smyrna c.
Poly carp before the governor at the stadium
The hostility of the governor and his motives
The hostility of the crowd and its motives
Were the local officials portrayed as influenced by personal
motives?
Ptolemaeus and Lucius' martyrdom and The Acts of Justin
A martyr narrative used for apologetic purposes
The legal prosecution of Justin and companions
Were the seven condemned because of an imperial edict
demanding sacrifice?
Rusticus' sentencing of the seven for being Christians and
the motives
Other opponents
Opposition and opponents in
The local initiative to opposition in
The actions of the regional authorities in
guidelines of Trajan
The reaction of the emperor Marcus Aurelius
Punishment on the charge of being Christian
Motives for persecution: The Christians' ungodliness,
immorality and superstition
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations and his motive for opposing
Christianity
Opposition and opponents in Scilli in North Africa in the
year
Instigators of opposition in Scilli in the year
The legal treatment of the accused
Specific or general motives for the persecution
The Christian rites as irreconcilable with Roman customs
Contents 11
The superstitious Christians
Immorality
Opposition and opponents in North Africa
story of
Did the emperor Septimius Severus instigate a general
persecution of Christians?
Opposition and opponents in Carthage
Perpetua's pagan father
Popular opposition to Christianity and its motives
The opposition of the regional Roman authorities
Is this account evidence that Severus persecuted converts
to Christianity?
Chapter
с
Approaching the texts of Celsus and Origin
Celsus' text viewed as a relic
Origen's purpose and audience
Developments in opposition
Opposition during the time of Celsus: the second half of
the 2nd Century AD
Opposition during the time of
of the 3rd Century AD
Origen's catalog of opponents
Motives for opposing Christianity according to Celsus'
criticism and Origen's reply
Is Celsus representative of pagan opposition?
Celsus' criticism of the Christian community as being
insubordinate and clandestine
Origen's reply to Celsus' criticism of the Christian
fellowship and community
Celsus' claim that Christians were immoral
Origen's reply to Celsus' criticism of Christian morality
Celsus' criticism of the Christian's ungodliness
Origen's reply to Celsus' criticism of the Christians'
ungodliness
Celsus' condemning of Christians for being superstitious
The charge of superstition and Origen's reply
Celsus' charge that Christians practice sorcery
Origin's defense against the charge that Christians were
sorcerers
12
Conclusion on development in opposition and motives
с
A spectrum of opposition, a spectrum of opponents, and
a new development
Consistency in the motives of the opponents
Chapter
Conclusion
Catalog of opponents, realistic, xenophobic and chimerical
hostility
Developments in hostility and in the nature of
opposition
Dominant realistic hostility amplified by xenophobic and
chimerical tendencies
Development in the imperial role in opposition and in the
hostility of emperors
The reactive role of emperors in persecutions
The motives of emperors for opposing Christianity
Development in regional opposition and in the motives of
governors
A precedent from Pliny and Trajan? The evidence of
Tertullian
From test of disposition to the torture of obstinate
Christians
Occasional hunts for Christians
Nature of hostility and motives of regional Roman
authorities
Development in local opposition and local hostility: local
authorities and
The decisive role of locals in opposition to Christianity
The character of local opposition and the motives of
locals
The consistency of the character of hostility
Consistent chimerical hostility
Consistent realistic hostility aggravated by xenophobic
hostility
Chapter
Christianity
Part I: Introduction
Preface
Source material and scholarly debate
Contents 13
Part
Opponents and the character of opposition
The motives
Part
Opponents and the character of opposition
The motives
Bibliography |
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| spelling | Engberg, Jakob 1971- Verfasser (DE-588)133348261 aut Impulsore Chresto opposition to christianity in the Roman Empire c. 50 - 250 AD Jakob Engberg. Transl. by Gregory Carter Frankfurt am Main [u.a.] Lang 2007 349 S. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Early Christianity in the context of antiquity 2 Vollst. zugl.: Odense, Univ., Diss. Impulsore Chresto reassesses opposition to Christianity AD 50-250. The Roman authorities' persecutions have caught the attention of both the public, intrigued by martyrs, and scholars, arguing that executions were relatively rare. The latter is not challenged, but the executions are placed in context as the most dramatic aspect of a spectrum of opposition including rumors, polemic, harassment and accusations. Such opposition was taken for granted and rarely described. But studying the preserved texts on trials against Christians it appears that even here the roles of relatives, plaintiffs, spectators or local officials were crucial. There were as many reasons for opposition as opponents, but some motives reappear in clusters: Christians were perceived as superstitious and ungodly, as endangering peace with the gods and social order. Geschichte 50-250 gnd rswk-swf Geschichte Kirchengeschichte Christianity and other religions Roman Church history Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 Persecution History Early church, ca. 30-600 Heidentum (DE-588)4024001-0 gnd rswk-swf Christentum (DE-588)4010074-1 gnd rswk-swf Gegner (DE-588)4353106-4 gnd rswk-swf Christenverfolgung (DE-588)4010076-5 gnd rswk-swf Rom Rome Religion Römisches Reich (DE-588)4076778-4 gnd rswk-swf (DE-588)4113937-9 Hochschulschrift gnd-content Christenverfolgung (DE-2581)TH000005780 gbd Römisches Reich (DE-588)4076778-4 g Christentum (DE-588)4010074-1 s Gegner (DE-588)4353106-4 s Heidentum (DE-588)4024001-0 s Geschichte 50-250 z DE-604 Christenverfolgung (DE-588)4010076-5 s Early Christianity in the context of antiquity 2 (DE-604)BV021838444 2 Digitalisierung BSBMuenchen application/pdf http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=015741314&sequence=000002&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA Inhaltsverzeichnis |
| spellingShingle | Engberg, Jakob 1971- Impulsore Chresto opposition to christianity in the Roman Empire c. 50 - 250 AD Early Christianity in the context of antiquity Geschichte Kirchengeschichte Christianity and other religions Roman Church history Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 Persecution History Early church, ca. 30-600 Heidentum (DE-588)4024001-0 gnd Christentum (DE-588)4010074-1 gnd Gegner (DE-588)4353106-4 gnd Christenverfolgung (DE-588)4010076-5 gnd |
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| title | Impulsore Chresto opposition to christianity in the Roman Empire c. 50 - 250 AD |
| title_auth | Impulsore Chresto opposition to christianity in the Roman Empire c. 50 - 250 AD |
| title_exact_search | Impulsore Chresto opposition to christianity in the Roman Empire c. 50 - 250 AD |
| title_exact_search_txtP | Impulsore Chresto opposition to christianity in the Roman Empire c. 50 - 250 AD |
| title_full | Impulsore Chresto opposition to christianity in the Roman Empire c. 50 - 250 AD Jakob Engberg. Transl. by Gregory Carter |
| title_fullStr | Impulsore Chresto opposition to christianity in the Roman Empire c. 50 - 250 AD Jakob Engberg. Transl. by Gregory Carter |
| title_full_unstemmed | Impulsore Chresto opposition to christianity in the Roman Empire c. 50 - 250 AD Jakob Engberg. Transl. by Gregory Carter |
| title_short | Impulsore Chresto |
| title_sort | impulsore chresto opposition to christianity in the roman empire c 50 250 ad |
| title_sub | opposition to christianity in the Roman Empire c. 50 - 250 AD |
| topic | Geschichte Kirchengeschichte Christianity and other religions Roman Church history Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 Persecution History Early church, ca. 30-600 Heidentum (DE-588)4024001-0 gnd Christentum (DE-588)4010074-1 gnd Gegner (DE-588)4353106-4 gnd Christenverfolgung (DE-588)4010076-5 gnd |
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