Sacrifice in Pagan and Christian Antiquity

Sacrifice in Pagan and Christian Antiquity
Author: Robert J. Daly
Publisher:
Total Pages: 165
Release: 2019
Genre: Sacrifice
ISBN: 9780567687036

"Robert J. Daly S.J. examines the concept of sacrifice in the ancient Mediterranean world, and discusses how the rise of bloodless Christian sacrifice, and the use of sacrificial language in reference to highly spiritualized Christian lives, would have seemed unsettling and radically challenging to the pagan mind. Acknowledging the difficulties posed by an overwhelmingly Christian scholarly narrative around the topic of sacrifice, Daly specifically sets out to tell the non-Christian side of this story. He first outlines the pagan trajectory, and then the Jewish-Christian trajectory, before concluding with a representative series of comparisons and contrasts. Covering the concept of sacrifice in relation to prayer, ethics and morality, the rhetoric and economics of sacrificial ceremonies, and heroes and saints, Daly finishes with an estimation of how this study might inform further study of sacrifice."--Bloomsbury publishing.

Sacrifice in Pagan and Christian Antiquity

Sacrifice in Pagan and Christian Antiquity
Author: Robert J. Daly
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2019-08-22
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 056768704X

Robert J. Daly S.J. examines the concept of sacrifice in the ancient Mediterranean world, and discusses how the rise of bloodless Christian sacrifice, and the use of sacrificial language in reference to highly spiritualized Christian lives, would have seemed unsettling and radically challenging to the pagan mind. Acknowledging the difficulties posed by an overwhelmingly Christian scholarly narrative around the topic of sacrifice, Daly specifically sets out to tell the non-Christian side of this story. He first outlines the pagan trajectory, and then the Jewish-Christian trajectory, before concluding with a representative series of comparisons and contrasts. Covering the concept of sacrifice in relation to prayer, ethics and morality, the rhetoric and economics of sacrificial ceremonies, and heroes and saints, Daly finishes with an estimation of how this study might inform further study of sacrifice.

The End of Sacrifice

The End of Sacrifice
Author: Susan Emanuel
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2011-08-22
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1459627520

The religious transformations that marked late antiquity represent an enigma that has challenged some of the West's greatest thinkers. But, according to Guy Stroumsa, the oppositions between paganism and Christianity that characterize prevailing theories have endured for too long. Instead of describing this epochal change as an evolution within ...

Sacrifice in Pagan and Christian Antiquity

Sacrifice in Pagan and Christian Antiquity
Author: Robert J. Daly
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 165
Release: 2019-08-22
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0567687023

Robert J. Daly S.J. examines the concept of sacrifice in the ancient Mediterranean world, and discusses how the rise of bloodless Christian sacrifice, and the use of sacrificial language in reference to highly spiritualized Christian lives, would have seemed unsettling and radically challenging to the pagan mind. Acknowledging the difficulties posed by an overwhelmingly Christian scholarly narrative around the topic of sacrifice, Daly specifically sets out to tell the non-Christian side of this story. He first outlines the pagan trajectory, and then the Jewish-Christian trajectory, before concluding with a representative series of comparisons and contrasts. Covering the concept of sacrifice in relation to prayer, ethics and morality, the rhetoric and economics of sacrificial ceremonies, and heroes and saints, Daly finishes with an estimation of how this study might inform further study of sacrifice.

Music & Worship in Pagan & Christian Antiquity

Music & Worship in Pagan & Christian Antiquity
Author: Johannes Quasten
Publisher: Pastoral Press
Total Pages: 264
Release: 1983
Genre: Music
ISBN:

A fascinating re-creation, with impeccable scholarship, of the early attifudes towards music and singing in Christian worship, done in the context of the cultures in which the Church grew up.

Animal Sacrifice in Ancient Greek Religion, Judaism, and Christianity, 100 BC to AD 200

Animal Sacrifice in Ancient Greek Religion, Judaism, and Christianity, 100 BC to AD 200
Author: M.-Z. Petropoulou
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
Total Pages: 349
Release: 2008-03-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 0199218544

A study of animal sacrifice within Greek paganism, Judaism, and Christianity between 100 BC and AD 200. After a vivid account of the realities of sacrifice in the Greek East and in the Jerusalem Temple, Maria-Zoe Petropoulou explores the attitudes of early Christians towards this practice, and the reasons why they ultimately rejected it.

Between Pagan and Christian

Between Pagan and Christian
Author: Christopher P. Jones
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2014-03-10
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0674369513

Who and what was pagan depended on the outlook of the observer, as Christopher Jones shows in this fresh and penetrating analysis. Treating paganism as a historical construct rather than a fixed entity, Between Christian and Pagan uncovers the fluid ideas, rituals, and beliefs that Christians and pagans shared in Late Antiquity.

Christianity, Empire, and the Making of Religion in Late Antiquity

Christianity, Empire, and the Making of Religion in Late Antiquity
Author: Jeremy M. Schott
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2013-04-23
Genre: History
ISBN: 0812203461

In Christianity, Empire, and the Making of Religion in Late Antiquity, Jeremy M. Schott examines the ways in which conflicts between Christian and pagan intellectuals over religious, ethnic, and cultural identity contributed to the transformation of Roman imperial rhetoric and ideology in the early fourth century C.E. During this turbulent period, which began with Diocletian's persecution of the Christians and ended with Constantine's assumption of sole rule and the consolidation of a new Christian empire, Christian apologists and anti-Christian polemicists launched a number of literary salvos in a battle for the minds and souls of the empire. Schott focuses on the works of the Platonist philosopher and anti- Christian polemicist Porphyry of Tyre and his Christian respondents: the Latin rhetorician Lactantius, Eusebius, bishop of Caesarea, and the emperor Constantine. Previous scholarship has tended to narrate the Christianization of the empire in terms of a new religion's penetration and conquest of classical culture and society. The present work, in contrast, seeks to suspend the static, essentializing conceptualizations of religious identity that lie behind many studies of social and political change in late antiquity in order to investigate the processes through which Christian and pagan identities were constructed. Drawing on the insights of postcolonial discourse analysis, Schott argues that the production of Christian identity and, in turn, the construction of a Christian imperial discourse were intimately and inseparably linked to the broader politics of Roman imperialism.

Journal of Moral Theology, Volume 9, Issue 2

Journal of Moral Theology, Volume 9, Issue 2
Author: Jason King
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2021-04-26
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1666718335

Charity, Justice, and Development in Practice: A Case Study of the Daughters of Charity in East Africa Meghan J. Clark Appropriation, Australia's Drinking Problem, and the Cost of Resistance in Catholic Health Services Daniel J. Fleming White Church or World Community? James Baldwin's Challenging Discipleship Jean-Pierre Fortin The Moral Impact of Digital Devices Marcus Mescher Life in the Struggle: Liturgical Innovation in the Face of the Cultural Devastation of Disaster Capitalism Daniel P. Rhodes From Indifference to Dwelling in Difference: Catholic-Muslim Marriages and Families and the Non-Hegemonic Reception of Muslim Migrants Axel Marc Oaks Takacs Augmented Reality and the Limited Promise of 'Ecstatic' Technology Criticism Luis G. Vera Book Reviews Tom Angier, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Natural Law Ethics Daniel A. Morris Gerald A. Arbuckle, SM, Abuse and Cover-Up: Refounding the Catholic Church in Trauma Kimberly Humphrey Jennifer Ayres, Inhabitance: Ecological Religious Education Steven Bouma-Prediger Hannah Bacon, Feminist Theology and Contemporary Dieting Culture: Sin, Salvation and Women's Weight Loss Narrative Stephanie C. Edwards Richard Berquist, From Human Dignity to Natural Law James Carey Brian Brock, Wondrously Wounded: Theology, Disability, and the Body of Christ Emily S. Kahm John J. Collins, What Are Biblical Values? What the Bible Says on Key Ethical Issues Patricia M. McDonald, SHCJ M. Shawn Copeland, Knowing Christ Crucified: The Witness of African American Religious Experience Stephen Okey Robert J. Daly, SJ, Sacrifice in Pagan and Christian Antiquity Chelsea King Asle Eikrem, God as Sacrificial Love: A Systematic Exploration of a Controversial Notion William P. Loewe Kevin L. Flanner, SJ, Cooperation with Evil; Thomistic Tools of Analysis Michael P. Krom Gifford A. Grobien, Christian Character Formation: Lutheran Studies of the Law, Anthropology, Worship, and Virtue Keyle Schiefelbein-Guerrero Ron Haflidson, On Solitude, Conscience, Love, and Our Inner and Outer Lives Kim Paffenroth Roger Haight, SJ, Faith and Evolution: A Grace-Filled Naturalism Taylor Wilkerson Raymond Hain, ed., Beyond the Self: Virtue Ethics and the Problem of Culture Christopher Denny Danielle Tumminio Hansen, Conceiving Family: A Practical Theology of Surrogacy and Self Kathryn Lilla Cox David Bentley Hart, That All Shall Be Saved: Heaven, Hell, and Universal Salvation Daniel Waldow Kristin E. Heyer, James F. Keenan, SJ, and Andrea Vicini, eds., Building Bridges in Sarajevo: The Plenary Papers from CTEWC 2018 Eli S. McCarthy Grant Macaskill, Autism and the Church: Bible, Theology and Community Jill Harshaw Graham James McAleer, Erich Przywara and Postmodern Natural Law Philip John Paul Gonzales Arthur J. McDonald, A Progressive Voice in the Catholic Church in the United States: Association of Pittsburgh Priests, 1966-2019 Jens Mueller Neil Messer, Theological Neuroethics: Christian Ethics Meets the Science of the Human Brain Amanda R. Alexander Michael J. Naughton, Getting Work Right: Labor and Leisure in a Fragmented World Stephanie Ann Puen Martin Schlag and Mele Domenec, eds., A Catholic Spirituality for Business: The Logic of Gift William J. Hisker Richard S. Vosko, Art and Architecture for Congregational Worship: The Search for a Common Ground Andrew Julo Jeremy D. Wilkins, Before Truth: Lonergan, Aquinas, and the Problem of Wisdom Jeremy Blackwood Curtis Paul DeYoung, et.al, Becoming Like Creoles: Living and Leading at the Intersections of Injustice, Culture, and Religion Ramon Luzarraga Christiana Zenner, Just Water: Theology, Ethics, and Fresh Water Crises. Rev. Ed. James W. Stroud 218

The Studia Philonica Annual XXXII, 2020

The Studia Philonica Annual XXXII, 2020
Author: David T. Runia
Publisher: SBL Press
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2021-01-29
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0884144879

Celebrate the contributions of Gregory E. Sterling Harold W. Attridge, Ellen Birnbaum, Adela Yarbro Collins, John J. Collins, Michael B. Cover, Jan Willem van Henten, Carl R. Holladay, Andrew McGowan, Karl-Wilhelm Niebuhr, Maren R. Niehoff, James R. Royse, and David T. Runia offer essays honoring Professor Gregory E. Sterling in this special edition of the The Studia Philonica Annual. This volume includes a biography of Sterling’s life by David T. Runia and a bibliography of Sterling’s scholarship by Michael B. Cover. Essays cover a range of topics on Philo, the Bible, and Josephus. Features: Articles on aspects of Hellenistic Judaism written by scholars from around the world Comprehensive bibliography of scholarship on Philo