TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gaddis,Michael
TI  - There is no crime for those who have Christ: religious violence in the Christian Roman Empire 
T2  - The transformation of the classical heritage
SN  - 1598757881
AV  - BR143 .G33 2005eb
U1  - 270.2 22
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Berkeley, Calif., London
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Persecution
KW  - Violence
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Church history
KW  - 4th century
KW  - 5th century
KW  - Martyrdom
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Christian Church
KW  - History
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - Ancient
KW  - General
KW  - fast
KW  - Teologi
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - "A Joan Palevsky Book in Classical Literature."; Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Princeton University, 1999; Includes bibliographical references and index; What has the emperor to do with the church?" : persecution and martyrdom from Diocletian to Constantine --; "The God of the martyrs refuses you" : religious violence, political discourse, and Christian identity in the century after Constantine --; An eye for an eye : religious violence in donatist Africa --; Temperata severitas : Augustine, the state, and disciplinary violence --; "There is no crime for those who have Christ" : holy men and holy violence in the late fourth and early fifth centuries --; "The monks commit many crimes" : holy violence contested --; "Sanctify thy hand by the blow" : problematizing Episcopal power --; Non iudicium sed latrocinium : of Holy Synods and robber councils
N2  - There is no crime for those who have Christ," claimed a fifth-century zealot, neatly expressing the belief of religious extremists that righteous zeal for God trumps worldly law. This book provides an in-depth and penetrating look at religious violence and the attitudes that drove it in the Christian Roman Empire of the fourth and fifth centuries, a unique period shaped by the marriage of Christian ideology and Roman imperial power
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