Violence in Ancient Christianity: Victims and Perpetrators by Albert Geljon
Violence in Ancient Christianity: Victims and Perpetrators

Albert Geljon

Violence in Ancient Christianity: Victims and Perpetrators

Vigiliae Christianae, Supplements

Albert Geljon with Riemer Roukema

260 pages first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction history religion medium-paced
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Ancient Christianity had an ambivalent stance toward violence. Jesus had instructed his disciples to love their enemies, and in the first centuries Christians were proud of this lofty teaching and tried to apply it to their persecutors and to comp...

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