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Christian intellectuals and the Roman Empire : from Justin Martyr to Origen / Jared Secord.
LIBRA BR170 .S43 2020
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Secord, Jared, author.
- Series:
- Inventing Christianity
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Church history--Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
- Church history.
- Church history--Primitive and early church.
- Intellectuals--Rome.
- Intellectuals.
- Christianity--Rome.
- Christianity.
- Intellectual life.
- Rome--Intellectual life.
- Rome.
- Rome (Empire).
- Physical Description:
- xi, 202 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2020]
- Summary:
- "A novel treatment of a group of early Christian authors, demonstrating that their behavior and self-presentation were shaped by the norms of Roman intellectual culture, and not simply by factors internal to Christianity"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Emperors, intellectuals, and the world of the Roman Empire
- Justin Martyr : a would-be public intellectual
- Tatian versus the Greeks : diversity in Christian intellectual culture
- Christian intellectuals and cultural change in the third century.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780271087078
- 0271087072
- OCLC:
- 1141125485
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