The Persecutions
Some Links between Judaism and the Early Church
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10088771 |
|---|---|
| Authors | W H C Frend (Canisius College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1958 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 141-158 |
| Publication date | 1958-10-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Ecclesiastical History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-0469 • E-ISSN: 1469-7637 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0022046900066239 |
| OpenAlex | W2027147691 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 7 |
Each generation of historiographers has had its own interpretation of the persecutions. In their hour of triumph in the years following the Council of Nicaea, Christians in both halves of the Roman Empire looked back to these events as the heroic age of the Christian faith. The sufferings of the Church were linked to the sufferings of the children of Israel and this time, too, anti-Christ and his abettors, the pagan emperors, their officials and the mobs had been worsted. Like the Egyptians they had perished miserably. But, as so often happens, victory dissolved the common bonds which united the victors. In the next centuries the relations between Church and State in the East and West were to follow different paths. In the East the ‘martyrdom in intention’ of the monastic life tended to replace the martyrdom in deed in opposition to the emperor. In the West, the martyr tradition was to underline that same opposition. Tertullian, Hilary, Ambrose, Gregory VII, Boniface VIII embody a single trend of ideas extending over a thousand years
Ancient history · Deed · Early Christianity · Emperor · Faith · Judaism · Martyr · Opposition (politics · Political science · Politics · Roman Empire · Theology · Victory · Byzantine Studies and History · Classics · Historical and Religious Studies of Rome · History · Law · Philosophy · Theology and Canon Law Studies
| Citations per year | 0.05 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1963 - 1973 (11) |
| Highly cited | No |