Making Amulets Christian - Artefacts, Scribes, and Contexts

It considers the use of incantations in early Christianity. It offers the first comprehensive investigation of magical practices (and how they changed) as Christianity became the dominant form of religion in the Roman Empire.

About the author

Theodore de Bruyn is Associate Professor in the Department of Classics and Religious Studies at the University of Ottawa. He has studied aspects of Christianity from antiquity to the early modern period. He is the co-editor of Patristic Studies in the Twenty-First Century (Brepols, 2015).

Summary

It considers the use of incantations in early Christianity. It offers the first comprehensive investigation of magical practices (and how they changed) as Christianity became the dominant form of religion in the Roman Empire.

Additional text

Making Amulets Christian: Artefacts, Scribes, and Contexts is an enjoyable book. Theodore de Bruyn sifts through a vast amount of material and curates a selection from which we can really get a sense of the rich cultural milieu that existed in Egypt in the Late Antique period. The book challenges us to move past envisioning Christianity and the earliest Christian practices in a monolithic manner and instead suggests an immense amount of nuance with variation by time, region, social positioning, and individual interpretation. This is a valuable and worthwhile read for anyone interested in the development of Christianity in Late Antiquity.

Product details

• Authors: Theodore de Bruyn, Theodore De (Associate Professor Bruyn, Theodore De Bruyn
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2017
• EAN: 9780199687886
• ISBN: 978-0-19-968788-6
• No. of pages: 308
• Series: Oxford Early Christian Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; RELIGION / Christian Church / History, BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Magick Studies, RELIGION / Biblical Studies / General, BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Hermetism & Rosicrucianism, Christianity, History of Religion, Magic, spells and alchemy, Magic, alchemy & hermetic thought, Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts, The Early Church, Biblical Studies & Exegesis