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When Our World Became Christian eBook

312 - 394

de Paul Veyne

idioma: inglês
editor: POLITY PRESS, outubro de 2013
This short book by one of France's leading historians deals with a big question: how was it that Christianity, that masterpiece of religious invention, managed, between 300 and 400 AD, to impose itself upon the whole of the Western world? In his erudite and inimitable way, Paul Veyne suggests three possible explanations.Was it because a Roman emperor, Constantine, who was master of the Western world at the time, became a sincere convert to Christianity and set out to Christianize the whole world in order to save it?Or was it because, as a great emperor, Constantine needed a great religion, and in comparison to the pagan gods, Christianity, despite being a minority sect, was an avant-garde religion unlike anything seen before?Or was it because Constantine limited himself to helping the Christians set up their Church, a network of bishoprics that covered the vast Roman Empire, and that gradually and with little overt resistance the pagan masses embraced Christianity as their own religion?In the course of deciding between these explanations Paul Veyne sheds fresh light on one of the most profound transformations that shaped the modern world - the Christianization of the West. A bestseller in France, this book will appeal to a wide readership interested in history, religion and the rise of the modern world.

When Our World Became Christian

312 - 394

de Paul Veyne

Propriedade Descrição
ISBN: 9780745683379
Editor: POLITY PRESS
Data de Lançamento: outubro de 2013
Idioma: Inglês
Tipo de produto: eBook
Formato e Compatibilidade:
Classificação temática: eBooks em Inglês > História > História em Geral
EAN: 9780745683379
Paul Veyne

Paul-Marie Veyne, nascido em 1930 num meio popular que ele próprio definiu como inculto, apaixonou-se por arqueologia e história com a idade de 8 anos. Historiador, especialista na Roma antiga, da sua vasta bibliografia destacam-se L'empire gréco-romain, L'élégie érotique romaine, Le pain et le cirque. Nas Edições Texto & Grafia encontram-se já publicadas as obras Quando o Nosso Mundo se Tornou Cristão e >i>Foucault, o Pensamento, a Pessoa.

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