The Christians as the Romans Saw Them (1984 Wilken), book
The Christians as the Romans Saw Them (1984) is a book by Robert Louis Wilken.
Abstract
Editions and translations
Published in New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1984.
Table of contents
- I. Pliny: a Roman gentleman.
The making of a Roman official; Travels of a provincial governor; A Christian association; Offerings of wine and incense.
- II. Christianity as a burial society.
Church or political club?; A sense of belonging; A Bacchic society; An obscure and secret association.
- III. The piety of the persecutors.
Roman religion and Christian prejudice; The practice of religion; "We too are a religious people"
- IV. Galen: the curiosity of a philosopher.
Philosophy and medicine; Christianity as a philosophical school; The practice of philosophy; The arbitrary god of the Christians.
- V. Celsus: a conservative intellectual.
Begging priests of Cybele and soothsayers; The deficiencies of Christian doctrine; Demythologizing the story of Jesus; An apostasy from Judaism; Religion and the social order.
- VI. Porphyry: the most learned critic of all.
In defense of Plato; The Jewish scriptures; The Christian New Testament; Philosophy from oracles; The religion of the emperor; Jesus not a magician; An unreasoning faith.
- VII. Julian the Apostate: Jewish law and Christian truth.
The emperor's piety; Greek education and Christian values; Against the Galilaeans; The tribal god of Jews and Christians; An apostasy from Judaism
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