Christianity in the Second Century: Themes and Developments ed. by James Carleton Paget and Judith Lieu (review)

• Autores: Clare K. Rothschild
• Localización: Journal of early Christian studies: Journal of the North American Patristic Society, ISSN 1067-6341, Nº. 3, 2018, págs. 508-513
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Woolf’s conclusion is itself a religious innovation, for his idea that religions emerged from a number of different starting points to become more similar contrasts with the widespread assumption that Judaism and Christianity are descendants of a common Abrahamic model (37). Acknowledging that some writers distinguished the church and synagogue, others, according to Horbury, did not: “Roman awareness of the Jewish connections of Christianity is indicated from Tacitus to Celsus and Galen, and has justifiably encouraged a synoptic view of Jews and Christians under second-century Roman rule” (86). (16) John A. North’s “Pagan Attitudes” subjects Lucian of Samosata’s comments on the early Christians in Death of Peregrinus to renewed examination, arguing that his evaluation raises previously overlooked questions about Lucian and his audience in the direction of sympathy for pagans attempting to understand Christianity. (17) In “‘Away with the Atheists!’ Christianity and the Militant Atheism in the Early Empire,” Tim Whitmarsh maintains that Christians were unlikely to have been viewed as atheists prior to Constantine, arguing rather that at this time it was Christians who positioned—in more than one way—true faith as antithetical to atheism (282).