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A threat to public piety : Christians, Platonists, and the great persecution / Elizabeth DePalma Digeser.

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Main Author: Digeser, Elizabeth DePalma, 1959-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2012.
Subjects:
Persecution > History > Early church, ca. 30-600.
Church history > Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
Christianity > Philosophy > History.
Platonists.
Violence > Philosophy.
Philosophy and religion.
Violence > Religious aspects.
Christianity > Philosophy.
Church history > Primitive and early church.
Persecution > Early church.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : from permeable circles to hardened boundaries
  • Ammonius Saccas and the philosophy without conflicts
  • Origen as a student of Ammonius
  • Plotinus, Porphyry, and philosophy in the public realm
  • Schism in the Ammonian community : Porphyry v. Iamblichus
  • Schism in the Ammonian community : Porphyry v. Methodius of Olympus
  • Conclusion : the Ammonian community and the great persecution.

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