05977cam a2200925Ma 4500 ocn784034502 OCoLC 20200709060020.0 m d cr |n||||||||| 120404s2012 nyu ob 001 0 eng d YDXCP eng pn YDXCP E7B OCLCQ JSTOR N$T P@U OCLCQ OCLCF OCLCO OCLCQ COO OCLCO OCLCQ OCLCO EBLCP OCLCO OCL OCLCQ OCLCO AZK OCLCO LOA YDX OCLCO AGLDB MOR PIFAG ZCU OCLCA MERUC OCLCQ IOG DEGRU 787851045 922997984 948455523 961515545 962616578 979954134 992825658 0801463963 (electronic bk.) 9780801463969 (electronic bk.) 9780801441813 (cloth ; alk. paper) 0801441811 (cloth ; alk. paper) 10.7591/9780801463969 doi 671405 (N$T) (OCoLC)784034502 (OCoLC)787851045 (OCoLC)922997984 (OCoLC)948455523 (OCoLC)961515545 (OCoLC)962616578 (OCoLC)979954134 (OCoLC)992825658 22573/ctt4sgj0 JSTOR BR1604.23 .D54 2012 HIS002020 bisacsh REL 033000 bisacsh 272/.1 23 11.51 bcl 15.51 bcl MAIN Digeser, Elizabeth DePalma, 1959- A threat to public piety : Christians, Platonists, and the great persecution / Elizabeth DePalma Digeser. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2012. 1 online resource (xv, 218 pages) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier data file rda Includes bibliographical references and index. 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. In A Threat to Public Piety, Elizabeth DePalma Digeser reexamines the origins of the Great Persecution (AD 303-313), the last eruption of pagan violence against Christians before Constantine enforced the toleration of Christianity within the Empire. Challenging the widely accepted view that the persecution enacted by Emperor Diocletian was largely inevitable, she points out that in the forty years leading up to the Great Persecution Christians lived largely in peace with their fellow Roman citizens. Why, Digeser asks, did pagans and Christians, who had intermingled cordially and productively for decades, become so sharply divided by the turn of the century?Making use of evidence that has only recently been dated to this period, Digeser shows that a falling out between Neo-Platonist philosophers, specifically Iamblichus and Porphyry, lit the spark that fueled the Great Persecution. In the aftermath of this falling out, a group of influential pagan priests and philosophers began writing and speaking against Christians, urging them to forsake Jesus-worship and to rejoin traditional cults while Porphyry used his access to Diocletian to advocate persecution of Christians on the grounds that they were a source of impurity and impiety within the empire.The first book to explore in depth the intellectual social milieu of the late third century, A Threat to Public Piety revises our understanding of the period by revealing the extent to which Platonist philosophers (Ammonius, Plotinus, Porphyry, and Iamblichus) and Christian theologians (Origen, Eusebius) came from a common educational tradition, often studying and teaching side by side in heterogeneous groups. In English. Master record variable field(s) change: 650 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. HISTORY Ancient Rome. bisacsh RELIGION History. bisacsh Christianity Philosophy. fast (OCoLC)fst00859625 Church history Primitive and early church. fast (OCoLC)fst01710945 Persecution Early church. fast (OCoLC)fst01907139 Philosophy and religion. fast (OCoLC)fst01060826 Platonists. fast (OCoLC)fst01066881 Violence Philosophy. fast (OCoLC)fst01167235 Violence Religious aspects. fast (OCoLC)fst01167248 Christenvervolgingen. gtt Neoplatonisme. gtt Romeinse rijk. gtt Christenverfolgung gnd Frühchristentum gnd Platonismus gnd Frühchristentum. idszbz Neuplatonismus. idszbz Christenverfolgung. idszbz Römisches Reich. idszbz 30-600 fast Electronic books. History. fast (OCoLC)fst01411628 Print version: Digeser, Elizabeth DePalma, 1959- Threat to public piety. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2012 9780801441813 0801441811 (DLC) 2011037723 EBSCOhost http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=671405 EBL - Ebook Library EBLB EBL3138308 ebrary EBRY ebr10545389 EBSCOhost EBSC 671405 Project MUSE MUSE muse28758 YBP Library Services YANK 7577408 De Gruyter DEGR 9780801463969 92 N$T 54198 54198