The great persecution
Subtitle: the proceedings of the Fifth Patristic Conference, Maynooth, 2003
By: edited by D. Vincent Twomey and Mark Humphries
Contributors: Twomey, Vincent; Humphries, Mark
Series: Irish theological quarterly monograph series -- 4; Irish theological quarterly monograph series -- 4.
Publisher: Four Courts Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Dublin, Ireland; Portland, OR
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9781846821615
Subjects: Persecution; History; Congresses; Christenverfolgung
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: The mind of the persecutors : 'By the gracious favour of the gods' / Mark Humphries; title: Philosophical objections to Christianity on the eve of the Great Persecution / Andrew Smith; title: Lessons from Diocletian's persecution / H.A. Drake; title: Preparation for martyrdom in the early Church / Oliver Nicholson; title: Eusebius of Caesarea's conceptions of the persecutions as a key to reading his Historia ecclesiastica / Thomas O'Loughlin; title: Imitating the mysteries that you celebrate : martyrdom and Eucharist in the early Patristic period / Finbarr G. Clancy; title: The origin of the cult of St George / David Woods; title: The perennial importance of the Great Persecution for politics and religion / D. Vincent Twomey.