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Author Secord, Jared, author.

Title Christian intellectuals and the Roman Empire from Justin Martyr to Origen / Jared Secord
Published University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2020]

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Description 1 online resource
Series Inventing Christianity
Inventing Christianity.
Contents Intro -- COVER Front -- Copyright Page -- Table of CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction -- Notes to Introduction -- Chapter 1: Emperors, Intellectuals, and the World of the Roman Empire -- Notes to Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2: Justin Martyr A Would-Be Public Intellectual -- Notes to Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3: TAtian Versus the Greeks Diversity in Christian Intellectual Culture -- Notes to Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4: Christian Intellectuals and Cultural Change in the Third Century -- Notes to Chapter 4 -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX
Summary "A novel treatment of a group of early Christian authors, demonstrating that their behavior and self-presentation were shaped by the norms of Roman intellectual culture, and not simply by factors internal to Christianity." -- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
Intellectuals -- Rome
Christianity -- Rome
HISTORY / Ancient / Rome.
Christianity
Church history -- Primitive and early church
Intellectual life
Intellectuals
Église -- 30-600 (Église primitive)
Vie intellectuelle -- Rome -- 30 av. J.-C.-284.
Intellectuels chretiens -- Rome.
SUBJECT Rome -- Intellectual life
Subject Rome (Empire)
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780271087665
0271087668
9780271087641
0271087641