Universal Salvation in Late Antiquity

Porphyry of Tyre and the Pagan-Christian Debate

Dados Bibliográficos

ID9316306
AutoresMichael Bland Simmons (autor correspondente)
Ano2015
Páginas488
Data de publicação2015-06-01
Open AccessNão
TipoBOOK
PeriódicoUniversal Salvation in Late Antiquity (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditoraOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190202392.001.0001
OpenAlexW4243569001
ISBN9780190202392
Open LibraryOL28559939M
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas7

This book explores the background to the effort of the Neoplatonist philosopher Porphyry (c.A.D. 232–305) to devise a system of universal salvation as a means of countering the Christian soteriological challenge, and the Christian reactions to this, notably from Eusebius of Caesarea. The main arguments are that Christianity received an enormous boost, despite efforts at suppression, from the economic, social, and political troubles, including famines and plagues, of the "Third Century Crisis," and that Porphyry's efforts to counter it on an intellectual level, though provoking indignant responses from Christian opponents, Lactantius, Arnobius, and Eusebius, proved futile, as Hellenic religion and philosophy were simply not equipped to provide a universal way of salvation which could attract the masses

Ancient history · Christianity · Late Antiquity · Political science · Politics · Theology · Byzantine Studies and History · Classical Antiquity Studies · Historical and Religious Studies of Rome · History · Law · Philosophy · Comparative studies · Dogmatik · Early church · Fornkyrkan · Frälsningen · Història · Historia · History of doctrines · Kristendom · Religión · Religion · Rome · Salvation · Universalism