Violence in Ancient Christianity: Victims and Perpetrators by Albert Geljon
Violence in Ancient Christianity: Victims and Perpetrators

Albert Geljon

Vigiliae Christianae, Supplements

Violence in Ancient Christianity: Victims and Perpetrators

Albert Geljon with Riemer Roukema

260 pages digital 2014

2 editions

nonfiction history religion medium-paced
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Ancient Christianity had an ambivalent stance toward violence. Jesus had instructed his disciples to love their enemies, and in the first centuries Christians were proud of this lofty teaching and tried to apply it to their persecutors and to comp...

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