Religious Rivalries in the Early Roman Empire and the Rise of Christianity
rites of the publica sacradesigned to link Rome and the communities of the empire in proper relationship with their gods. Stark’ ...
is not best characterized as a market, in which autonomous individuals choose products. The paganism of the public cults, i.e., ...
(literally, benefaction). Certainly, its good works included what we would call charity (in the practical sense) or welfare. But ...
philanthropic exchange, what the rich got as output from the input of their wealth was respect, and hence, in that intensely def ...
credibility of religious leadership in the Roman Empire on this bipolar scale. Of equally dubious relevance to public paganism i ...
It was the middle of winter and the north wind was strong and it was icy cold, and the pebbles were fixed to one another by the ...
breaks down if there is no grateful populace to admire and applaud the phi- lanthropy. Only once did the system require the acti ...
backgrounds,” once it has been determined that Christianity was a “cult” in the defined sense and not a sect. In sum, “[t]he who ...
Leadership in the renewal lay, of course, squarely with the emperor.^4 Horace was as close to a government spokesperson as one c ...
There could be no question of Ganymede and his peers banding together in some sect-like movement to reform the cult of Jupiter o ...
INTRODUCTION This chapter aims to sharpen some of the notions I advanced in chapter 1 in the light of the intervening discussion ...
already sufficiently composed and operative in the centuries before titular domain was achieved. That such dominance has never b ...
in fact, decisively shaped by the fact that so much of its core religious vocabulary is expressly political and so frankly imper ...
the promise of peace in this name (Luke 2:14, 29; John 14:27; 16:33; 20:19, 21, 26; Acts 10:36, etc.); the recollection of the s ...
proper meaning of the terminology in question, when used by one or another early Christian, to be ultimately a higher (theologic ...
separated from Luke but it is also typically conjoined with the Catholic Epistles. Thus, of the four main subunits—i.e., the fou ...
gelist’s larger political vision of early Christian accommodation and submis- sion to Roman rule. At the same time, such a depic ...
Again, this may be true as far as it goes. Nonetheless, Jesus’ ascension to heaven (together with the peace his birth inaugurate ...
other words, Jesus would represent the “true” realization of the project otherwise identified with Augustus. Similarly, regardin ...
deemed purposefully to have opposed the Christian saviour to Augustus, the more directly such a description would serve, under o ...
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