The Omphalos and the Cross: Pagans and Christians in Search of a Divine Center"The Omphalos and the Cross offers a fresh look at the cultural environment of early Christianity. Interdisciplinary in nature, this work establishes a background for Christianity that not only reaches back to the Old Testament but also to the lengthy development of Greco-Roman religious and philosophical traditions that determined part of the path the early church had to follow to stay alive and prosper."--BOOK JACKET. |
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Table des matières
The Death of the Redeemer | 205 |
The Disciples in the PostResurrection Era | 209 |
Stephen and His Contributions to the Early Church | 211 |
The Rise of Paul to Supremacy in Christianity | 214 |
The Early Church and Greek Philosophy | 223 |
Celsuss platonistic Logic | 228 |
Christianity and Neoplatonic Philosophy | 231 |
Christians and Pagans in Their Roman Environment | 241 |
| 43 | |
Apollos Ascension to Wisdom | 55 |
The Prophet and the Pythia | 69 |
The Sources of Divination | 70 |
The Blessings of Madness | 73 |
Biblical Prophecy | 75 |
The Pythia and Her God | 80 |
The Pythia and the Prophet | 84 |
The Rise and Fall of the Delphic Oracle | 87 |
The Nature of the Oracle | 90 |
Divine Ambiguity | 96 |
Divine and Human Law in Delphic Perspective | 101 |
Oracular Religion and Chaldaean Oracles | 104 |
Apollonian Oracles in Christian Perspective | 112 |
The Decline of the Oracle | 119 |
The Sibyl and Sybyline Oracles | 127 |
The Pythia the Sibyl and the Sibyllini Libri | 131 |
The Sibylline Books in Roman History | 135 |
Sibylline Oracles in Jewish Religion | 146 |
Sibylline Oracles in Early Christianity | 150 |
The Rise of Christianity | 173 |
The Old and the New in John the Baptist | 175 |
The Coming of the Messiah | 180 |
The Teaching of Jesus | 187 |
The Miracles of the Kingdom | 194 |
Brief Estimate of Roman Religion | 244 |
Christian Faith in Search of a Home in the Roman Empire | 258 |
Christian Refutations of Paganism | 267 |
The Age of Constantine | 271 |
The Age of Julian | 283 |
The Age of Theodosius | 306 |
From Persecution to Religious Freedom | 323 |
Christians and the Calamities of the Empire | 325 |
From Verbal Assault to Physical violence | 334 |
The Kingdom within the Empire | 364 |
The Quest for Tolerance and Religious freedom | 376 |
Classical Culture and Christian Faith | 393 |
Early Christian Perspectives on Classical Culture | 396 |
The Role of Classical Culture in Julians Reform | 410 |
After JulianTowards a Universalization of Culture | 420 |
When the Gods Are Silent | 441 |
Deus Absconditus | 444 |
The Christianization of Paganism and the Paganization of Christianity | 453 |
Religion without Revelation | 458 |
The Transfiguration of the Gods | 462 |
Epilogue | 469 |
Appendixes | 473 |
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| 495 | |
Expressions et termes fréquents
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Informations bibliographiques
| Titre | The Omphalos and the Cross: Pagans and Christians in Search of a Divine Center Church history |
| Auteur | Paul Ciholas |
| Éditeur | Mercer University Press, 2003 |
| ISBN | 0865547831, 9780865547834 |
| Longueur | 513 pages |
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