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The Myth of Persecution. How Early Christians Invented a Story of Martyrdom.
[Buy it!] | Moss, Candida: | USD 20.00
(Sun May 26 03:40:34 2024) | Choosebooks/ZVAB | Fundus-Online GbR Borkert Schwarz Zerfaß | ISBN10: 0062104527, ISBN13: 9780062104526, [publisher: HarperOne. 05.03.2013.] Hardcover 308 Seiten / p., Beilage minimal berieben, ansonsten tadelloser Zustand / minimally rubbed, otherwise perfect condition - Beilage: zwei Rezensionen / supplements: two reviews - ACCORDING TO CHERISHED CHURCH tradition and popular belief, before the Emperor Constantine made Christianity legal in the fourth century, early Christians were systematically persecuted by a brutal Roman Empire intent on their destruction. As the story goes, vast numbers of believers were thrown to the lions, tortured, or burned alive because they refused to renounce Christ. These saints, Christianity's inspirational heroes, are still venerated today. -- In The Myth of Persecution, Candida Moss reveals that the "Age of Martyrs" is a fiction - there was no sustained three-hundred-year-long effort by the Romans to persecute Christians. Instead, these stories were pious exaggerations; highly stylized rewritings of Jewish, Greek, and Roman noble death traditions; and even forgeries designed to marginalize heretics, inspire the faithful, and fund churches. -- The traditional story of persecution is still taught in Sunday school classes, celebrated in sermons, and employed by church leaders, politicians, and media pundits who insist that Christians were - and always will be - persecuted by a hostile, secular world. Moss urges modern Christians to abandon the conspiratorial assumption that the world is out to destroy the church and, rather, embrace the consolation, moral instruction, and spiritual guidance that these martyrdom stories provide. ISBN 9780062104526 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 456 15,2 x 2,7 x 22,9 cm, Originalhardcover mit Schutzumschlag / with dust jacket.
[Berlin, Germany] [Publication Year: 2013]
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