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Robert Louis Wilken

Författare till The Christians as the Romans Saw Them

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Robert Louis Wilken is William R. Kenan Professor of the History of Christianity Emeritus, University of Virginia. He is the author of many books, including The Christians as the Romans Saw Them, published by Yale University Press.

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Remembering the Christian Past (1995) 83 exemplar
Aspects of Wisdom in Judaism and Early Christianity (1975) — Redaktör — 20 exemplar

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An understandable and thorough overview of patristics. Very worthwhile.
 
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Aidan767 | 1 annan recension | Feb 1, 2024 |
A key text to understand the attitudes of the ancients towards Jews and Christians and refute the laughable arguments raised by charlatans following Judeo-Christianity, the greatest religious fraud in the history of the west.
 
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Vertumnus | 9 andra recensioner | Jun 20, 2022 |
From one of the leading historians of Christianity comes this sweeping reassessment of religious freedom, from the church fathers to John Locke
In the ancient world Christian apologists wrote in defense of their right to practice their faith in the cities of the Roman Empire. They argued that religious faith is an inward disposition of the mind and heart and cannot be coerced by external force, laying a foundation on which later generations would build.
Chronicling the history of the struggle for religious freedom from the early Christian movement through the seventeenth century, Robert Louis Wilken shows that the origins of religious freedom and liberty of conscience are religious, not political, in origin. They took form before the Enlightenment through the labors of men and women of faith who believed there could be no justice in society without liberty in the things of God. This provocative book, drawing on writings from the early Church as well as the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, reminds us of how “the meditations of the past were fitted to affairs of a later day.”… (mer)
 
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StFrancisofAssisi | Sep 6, 2021 |
Not as good as I was hoping it would be.
 
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Chica3000 | 9 andra recensioner | Dec 11, 2020 |

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