Barbarian or Greek?: The Charge of Barbarism and Early Christian Apologetics by Stamenka E. Antonova

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 675-677
Author(s):  
Jörg Ulrich
Keyword(s):  
Early Christian ◽  
Christian Apologetics

Toward a Social Interpretation of Early Christian Apologetics

1970 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 437-458
Author(s):  
Robert L. Wilken
Keyword(s):  
Social Thought ◽  
Social Analysis ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Gallup Poll ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
Methodological Guideline ◽  
Christian Apologetics

How did Christianity appear to men and women of the GrecoRoman world when it first began to emerge into public view? What ideas and conceptions were present within Roman “social thought” to identify and define a new phenomenon such as Christianity? What did men “see” when they looked at the Christians? In antiquity no one subjected the Christian movement to a social analysis or took a Gallup poll of popular opinions, but there is some evidence from which to gain an impression of how Christianity appeared to outsiders. As a methodological guideline I take the suggestion made by James Gustafson in his Treasure in Earthern Vessels.

The Philosophical Tradition

2021 ◽  
pp. 331-344
Author(s):  
Philip Bosman
Keyword(s):  
Philosophical Tradition ◽  
Moral Choice ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
Body And Soul ◽  
Christian Apologetics ◽  
Allegorical Interpretation ◽  
Over Time

This chapter traces the development of the image and use of the mythological figure of Heracles in philosophical contexts. Heracles’ mythology is notoriously amoral, but the figure gets drawn into moral roles over time, in tandem with the development of virtue from a heroic to a civic value. Pindar employs him as an example of attaining immortality through virtuous actions and Prodicus’ tale implies that his deeds were the result of autonomous moral choice. Antisthenes and Cynic tradition elevate him to the paradigm for the Cynic way in opting for action (above theory), itinerancy, training of body and soul, and toil. Others also claimed Heracles to have philosophized through his deeds, but prefer an allegorical interpretation of the mythology, a tradition of interpretation that ran from Herodorus through the Stoics Cleanthes, Cornutus and Seneca, and into early Christian apologetics.

Ethik als Ausweis christlicher Identität bei Justin Martyr

2006 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-28
Author(s):  
Jörg Ulrich
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
The Other ◽  
Christian Identity ◽  
External Reason ◽  
Legal Proceedings ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
Ethical Implications ◽  
Justin Martyr ◽  
Christian Apologetics ◽  
The One

Abstract Ethics have Iong been a neglected matter in schalarship on early Christian apologetics. However, a closer Iook at the composition of the texts of Justin Martyr teaches us how important the references to Christi an ethics actually are in the run of his argument. The external reason forthat lies in the fact that Justin wants to prove the legal proceedings against the Christians in the Roman empire to be unjust and absurd. The inner reason is that he interprets Christianity as »true philosophy«: in view of the understanding of »philosophy~< in his pagan environment, this brings about fundamental ethical implications. Both his apologies and the dialogue with Trypho show how Justin employs ethical convictions as a criterio for Christian identity and as a trait of difference between Christianity and Paganism on the one hand, and between Christianity and Judaism on the other.

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