Mission and Conversion - Proselytizing in the Religious History of the Roman Empire

Zusatztext for Jews and Christians this book is a rich source of interest and relevance ... There is a great deal of information and analysis that is clearly presented and cogently argued Informationen zum Autor Martin Goodman is Reader in Jewish Studies and Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford, and a Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew Studies. Klappentext This book tackles a central problem of religious history: proselytizing by Jews and pagans in the ancient world, and the origins of mission in the early Church. Martin Goodman argues that mission is not an inherent religious instinct, that in antiquity it was found only sporadically among Jews and pagans, and even Christians rarely stressed its importance in the early centuries. Zusammenfassung This text tackles a central problem of Jewish and comparative religious history: proselytization and the origins of mission in the Early Church. The author offers a controversial theory that mission is not an inherent religious instinct, and that its importance was rarely stressed in antiquity.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Chong Hannah Goodman, Martin Goodman, Martin (Reader in Jewish Studies and Fell Goodman, Susan Goodman
• Edition: Oxford University Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 28.12.1995
• EAN: 9780198263876
• ISBN: 978-0-19-826387-6
• Pages: 208
• Thèmes: Clarendon Paperbacks; Clarendon Paperbacks
• Catégories: Littérature spécialisée > Philosophie, religion > Religion: général, ouvrages de référence; Religion / Christian Church / General, RELIGION / Christianity / History, RELIGION / Christian Ministry / Missions, RELIGION / Christian Ministry / Evangelism, RELIGION / Christianity / General, Christian mission & evangelism, Christianity, History of Religion, Ancient Rome, Religious mission and Religious Conversion, Religious institutions and organizations, The Early Church, Religious institutions & organizations