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"Christians living in the Roman empire during the first four centuries after Christ struggled with the extent to which they should recognize and accept imperial authority. In the fifth century AD, Augustine of Hippo definitively enabled Christians to support Roman power directly by showing how the purpose of the state could be consistent with the purpose of Christianity. Christians could and should submit to the rule of Roman law and live within a society characterized by a plurality of religions." "As David A. Lopez demonstrates in Separatist Christianity, however, the four centuries before Augustine witnessed a very different and far less nuanced doctrine. Through a close reading of canonical writings from the second and third centuries, he finds a Christianity that advocated a complete separation from the material and pagan Roman world. Incited by state persecution and cognizant of the fragility of their communities, church leaders and prominent Christian thinkers exhorted their followers to reject any accommodation to the Roman empire. To recognize imperial authority, they contended, would be to apostatize from the truth of Christianity." "Examining how ideas of martyrdom, apocalypse, and separation from the social and political world of Rome developed between the destruction of the Temple in 70 and Constantine's conversion in 312, Lopez finds a coherent and consistent anti-Roman sentiment in early Christianity. This radical agenda appears not only in the works by and about martyrs but also in the exegetical, disciplinary, and apologetic texts."--BOOK JACKET.
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Église et le monde, Histoire des doctrines, Church and the world, Kerk en staat, Staat, Séparation d'avec le mal, Christianity, Separation from sin, Romeinse rijk, History of doctrines, Christianisme, Kirche, Frühchristentum, Christianity, early church, ca. 30-600, Church, history of doctrinesEdition | Availability |
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Separatist Christianity: Spirit and Matter in the Early Church Fathers
September 1, 2004, The Johns Hopkins University Press
Hardcover
in English
0801879396 9780801879395
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"In the first four centuries of Christian development, Christian writers used the dichotomy between the spiritual and the corporeal in varying ways."
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