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- Title
Heirs of Roman Prosecution. Studies on a Christian and Para-Christian Discourse in Late Antiquity ed. by Éric Fournier and Wendy Mayer (review).
- Authors
Cobb, L. Stephanie
- Abstract
Ployd convincingly shows that this epistle reveals ways Christians were working out how to wield power justly: Christian persecution of others, according to Augustine, could be just, warranted, even beneficent - that is, it can be performed as a "loving correction" (100). In "For Their Own Good: Augustine and the Rhetoric of Beneficial Persecution", Ployd shifts the focus from Christians as persecuted to Christians as persecutors. Fournier outlines three primary goals of the volume: to explore how post-Constantinian Christians and "para-Christians" (i.e., Manichaeans) understood violence directed at them; to challenge scholars to define more explicitly and precisely terms like "persecution;" and, to investigate how and when the rhetoric of persecution was deployed.
- Subjects
CHRISTIAN Reading: Language, Ethics &; the Order of Things (Book); CHRISTIANS; PERSECUTION of Christians; ROMANS; PROSECUTION; DISCOURSE
- Publication
Journal of Late Antiquity, 2021, Vol 14, Issue 1, pN.PAG
- ISSN
1939-6716
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/jla.2021.0009