TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wilken,Robert Louis
TI  - The Christians as the Romans saw them
SN  - 0300030665
AV  - BL2756 .W54 1984
U1  - 270.1 19
PY  - 1984///
CY  - New Haven
PB  - Yale University Press
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Controversial literature
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Christianisme
KW  - Ouvrages de controverse
KW  - Histoire et critique
KW  - fast
KW  - Christendom
KW  - gtt
KW  - Beeldvorming
KW  - Church history
KW  - Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600
KW  - sears
KW  - Christianity and other religions
KW  - Rome
KW  - History
KW  - Religion
KW  - Christian church
KW  - Attitudes of Ancient Romans, to ca 360
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-209) and index; 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
N2  - A portrayal of the Christian movement as seen through the eyes of five representative figures from the second, third, and fourth centuries, including Roman senator Pliny the younger, Greek philosopher Celsus, and emperor Julian the Apostate
ER  -