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Sep 28, 2006 · It is convenient to divide the persecutions into three distinct phases. The first ends just before the great fire at Rome in 64; the second begins with the persecution which followed the fire and continues until 250; 3 and the third opens with the persecution under Decius in 250–1 and lasts until 313—or, if we take account of the anti-Christian activities of Licinius in his later years ...
Jan 10, 2023 · Frend was inspired by de Ste Croix to consider the question’s less formal elements. 18 But where de Ste Croix set aside Jewish agency, Frend made it his key focus: ‘In the study of the persecutions the Jews, Christians and authorities have an equal part in the drama’. 19 For him, persecution stemmed from not just the antagonism between pagans and Christians but also ‘the ceaseless ...
Oct 1, 2007 · The final study is designed to explode the myth that early Christians tried to ameliorate the condition of the poor and the disenfranchised. This myth has perhaps beguiled his fellow-Marxists, but no student of the Church Fathers would expect them to differ from Paul, and Paul holds clearly enough that, since God voluntarily assumed the form of a slave in his incarnation, the slave on earth ...
- M. J. Edwards
- 2007
foundation of the theory, an essential presupposition of which is that the Christians were ordered to sacrifice and contumaciously refused. 3. It is true that in many later trials of Christians the accused are. actually ordered to sacrifice or to do some other act which their religion.
1 These are particular points in a much wider reach of work that included the class struggle in the ‘Greek World’, which for Ste. Croix stretched from the 7th century BCE to the 6th century CE, the nature of Athenian democracy, of which Ste. Croix was a champion, the causes of the Peloponnesian War, and the matters of martyrdom, persecution and early church councils (Ste. Croix Citation ...
- Roland Boer
- 2011
Ste. Croix (Sainte Croix) was born on 8 February 1910 in Portuguese Macau, and baptised in St John's Cathedral, Hong Kong. [2][3] His parents were also born in China to British expatriates. His father, Ernest Henry de Ste Croix, who died when he was four, was an official in the Chinese Customs. Their Huguenot ancestors fled to Jersey during the ...
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Sep 28, 2006 · OUP Oxford, Sep 28, 2006 - History - 408 pages. This volume brings together seven seminal papers by the great radical historian Geoffrey de Ste. Croix, who died in 2000, on early Christian topics, with an especial focus on persecution and martyrdom. Christian martyrdom is a topic which conjures up ready images of inhumane persecutors confronted ...
