Violence in Ancient Christianity

Violence in Ancient Christianity
Author: Albert Geljon
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2014-06-05
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004274901
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Ancient Christianity had an ambivalent stance toward violence. Jesus had instructed his disciples to love their enemies, and in the first centuries Christians were proud of this lofty teaching and tried to apply it to their persecutors and to competing religious groups. Yet at the same time they testify to their virulent verbal criticism of Jews, heretics and pagans, who could not accept the Christian exclusiveness. After emperor Constantine had turned to Christianity, Christians acquired the opportunity to use violence toward competing groups and pagans, even though they were instructed to love them personally and Jewish-Christian relationships flourished at grass root level. General analyses and case studies demonstrate that the fashionable distinction between intolerant monotheism and tolerant polytheism must be qualified.

Religious Violence in the Ancient World

Religious Violence in the Ancient World
Author: Jitse H. F. Dijkstra
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 447
Release: 2020-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108494900
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A comparative examination and interpretation of religious violence in the Graeco-Roman world and Late Antiquity.

Christianity and Violence in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period

Christianity and Violence in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period
Author: Fernanda Alfieri
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 203
Release: 2021-03-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 3110643979
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The volume explores the relationship between religion and violence in Europe from the Middle Ages to the Early modern period, involving European and Japanese scholars. It investigates the ideological foundations of the relationship between violence and religion and their development in a varied corpus of sources (political and theological treatises, correspondence of missionaries, pamphlets, and images).

Sacred Violence

Sacred Violence
Author: Brent D. Shaw
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 931
Release: 2011-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 0521196051
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Employs the sectarian battles which divided African Christians in late antiquity to explore the nature of violence in religious conflicts.

Violence and Belief in Late Antiquity

Violence and Belief in Late Antiquity
Author: Thomas Sizgorich
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 407
Release: 2012-03-19
Genre: History
ISBN: 0812207440
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In Violence and Belief in Late Antiquity, Thomas Sizgorich seeks to understand why and how violent expressions of religious devotion became central to the self-understandings of both Christian and Muslim communities between the fourth and ninth centuries. Sizgorich argues that the cultivation of violent martyrdom as a path to holiness was in no way particular to Islam; rather, it emerged from a matrix put into place by the Christians of late antiquity. Paying close attention to the role of memory and narrative in the formation of individual and communal selves, Sizgorich identifies a common pool of late ancient narrative forms upon which both Christian and Muslim communities drew. In the process of recollecting the past, Sizgorich explains, Christian and Muslim communities alike elaborated iterations of Christianity or Islam that demanded of each believer a willingness to endure or inflict violence on God's behalf and thereby created militant local pieties that claimed to represent the one "real" Christianity or the only "pure" form of Islam. These militant communities used a shared system of signs, symbols, and stories, stories in which the faithful manifested their purity in conflict with the imperial powers of the world.

There Is No Crime for Those Who Have Christ

There Is No Crime for Those Who Have Christ
Author: Michael Gaddis
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 415
Release: 2005-10-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 0520241045
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Focusing on the 4th and 5th centuries, Michael Gaddis explores how various groups employed the language of religious violence to construct their own identities, to undermine the legitimacy of their rivals, & to advance themselves in the competitive & high stakes process of Christianizing the Roman Empire.

Christianity Versus Violence

Christianity Versus Violence
Author: Stan Windass
Publisher: Burns & Oates
Total Pages: 198
Release: 1979
Genre: Religion
ISBN:
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Early Christianity is strongly pacifist. Mid-twentieth century Christianity has plenty of exponents who are satisfied that it is in accordance with Christian principles not only to wage war but to wage it by wiping out indiscriminately and at one blow millions of helpless civilians. The change of viewpoint is striking, to say the least. Yet as the author points out, mere ironic condemnation is here not a good enough response from the Christian; not nearly good enough. Many early Christians could give the problem of violence a magnificently over-simplified solution precisely because they were not really committed to the world; their archetypal relation to it was the simple head-on collision of martyrdom. It was only when the martyrdoms had begun to convert the world that Christians painfully realized that they could not contract out of running society, and that the problem of violence could not be tackled so simply.

The Crusades

The Crusades
Author: Jonathan Simon Christopher Riley-Smith
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 387
Release: 2005-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0300101287
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"Pulls off the enviable feat of summing up seven centuries of religious warfare in a crisp 309 pages of text."--Dennis Drabelle, Washington Post Book World In this authoritative work, Jonathan Riley-Smith provides the definitive account of the Crusades: an account of the theology of violence behind the Crusades, the major Crusades, the experience of crusading, and the crusaders themselves. With a wealth of fascinating detail, Riley-Smith brings to life these stirring expeditions to the Holy Land and the politics and personalities behind them. This new edition includes revisions throughout as well as a new Preface and Afterword in which Jonathan Riley-Smith surveys recent developments in the field and examines responses to the Crusades in different periods, from the Romantics to the Islamic world today. From reviews of the first edition: "Everything is here: the crusades to the Holy Land, and against the Albigensians, the Moors, the pagans in Eastern Europe, the Turks, and the enemies of the popes. Riley-Smith writes a beautiful, lucid prose, . . . [and his book] is packed with facts and action."--Choice "A concise, clearly written synthesis . . . by one of the leading historians of the crusading movement. "--Robert S. Gottfried, Historian "A lively and flowing narrative [with] an enormous cast of characters that is not a mere catalog but a history. . . . A remarkable achievement."--Thomas E. Morrissey, Church History "Superb."--Reuven S. Avi-Yonah, Speculum "A first-rate one-volume survey of the Crusading movement from 1074 . . . to 1798."--Southwest Catholic

Christianity and the History of Violence in the Roman Empire

Christianity and the History of Violence in the Roman Empire
Author: Dirk Rohmann
Publisher: UTB GmbH
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2019-10-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 382525285X
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Das Buch präsentiert eine Vielzahl an Quellen des 1. bis 7. Jh.s., welche das Problem der religiösen Gewalt hinsichtlich der Christianisierung des Römischen Reiches und der germanischen Nachfolgestaaten veranschaulichen. Die Quellen werden in den Originalsprachen und neuen Übersetzungen dargeboten und sind mit Einleitungen, Kommentaren und Kurzbibliographien versehen.

Must Christianity Be Violent?

Must Christianity Be Violent?
Author: Kenneth R. Chase
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2007-07-09
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1725219794
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The Crusades. The Conquest of the Americas. U.S. Slavery. The Jewish Holocaust. Mention of these events evokes a variety of responses from Christians, including guilt, defensiveness, and bewilderment. Given such a tangled historical relationship to aggression and injustice, how can Christians answer those who argue that our faith is inherently violent, or that Christian doctrines inevitably lead to sacrifice, conquest, and war? In Must Christianity Be Violent? editors Kenneth R. Chase and Alan Jacobs have gathered pointed essays that provide specific responses to these arguments. Divided into "histories," "practices," and "theologies," the essays explore the historical causation of Christian violence and discuss practices that promote what one contributor calls "just peacemaking." The contributors explore the history of Christian violence and advocate the need for an uncompromised biblical theology in our search for peace. This timely collection will appeal to readers of Christian history, ethics, and theology, and those who want to better understand the specifically Christian response to violence and cultivation of peace.