LEADER 04531nam 2200733Ia 450 001 9910818937603321 005 20230801222735.0 010 $a0-8014-6396-3 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801463969 035 $a(CKB)2670000000181584 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000623517 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11407643 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000623517 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10657417 035 $a(PQKB)11078099 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001495596 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3138308 035 $a(OCoLC)784034502 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse28758 035 $a(DE-B1597)480070 035 $a(OCoLC)979954134 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801463969 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3138308 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10545389 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL681792 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000181584 100 $a20110907d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||a|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 12$aA threat to public piety$b[electronic resource] $eChristians, Platonists, and the great persecution /$fElizabeth DePalma Digeser 210 $aIthaca $cCornell University Press$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (218 pages) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-322-50510-1 311 $a0-8014-4181-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tPreface -- $tList of Abbreviations -- $tIntroduction: From Permeable Circles to Hardened Boundaries -- $t1. Ammonius Saccas and the Philosophy without Conflicts -- $t2. Origen as a Student of Ammonius -- $t3. Plotinus, Porphyry, and Philosophy in the Public Realm -- $t4. Schism in the Ammonian Community: Porphyry v. Iamblichus -- $t5. Schism in the Ammonian Community: Porphyry v. Methodius of Olympus -- $tConclusion: The Ammonian Community and the Great Persecution -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aIn A Threat to Public Piety, Elizabeth DePalma Digeser reexamines the origins of the Great Persecution (AD 303-313), the last eruption of pagan violence against Christians before Constantine enforced the toleration of Christianity within the Empire. Challenging the widely accepted view that the persecution enacted by Emperor Diocletian was largely inevitable, she points out that in the forty years leading up to the Great Persecution Christians lived largely in peace with their fellow Roman citizens. Why, Digeser asks, did pagans and Christians, who had intermingled cordially and productively for decades, become so sharply divided by the turn of the century?Making use of evidence that has only recently been dated to this period, Digeser shows that a falling out between Neo-Platonist philosophers, specifically Iamblichus and Porphyry, lit the spark that fueled the Great Persecution. In the aftermath of this falling out, a group of influential pagan priests and philosophers began writing and speaking against Christians, urging them to forsake Jesus-worship and to rejoin traditional cults while Porphyry used his access to Diocletian to advocate persecution of Christians on the grounds that they were a source of impurity and impiety within the empire.The first book to explore in depth the intellectual social milieu of the late third century, A Threat to Public Piety revises our understanding of the period by revealing the extent to which Platonist philosophers (Ammonius, Plotinus, Porphyry, and Iamblichus) and Christian theologians (Origen, Eusebius) came from a common educational tradition, often studying and teaching side by side in heterogeneous groups. 606 $aPersecution$xHistory$yEarly church, ca. 30-600 606 $aChurch history$yPrimitive and early church, ca. 30-600 606 $aChristianity$xPhilosophy$xHistory 606 $aPlatonists 606 $aViolence$xPhilosophy 606 $aPhilosophy and religion 606 $aViolence$xReligious aspects 615 0$aPersecution$xHistory 615 0$aChurch history 615 0$aChristianity$xPhilosophy$xHistory. 615 0$aPlatonists. 615 0$aViolence$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aPhilosophy and religion. 615 0$aViolence$xReligious aspects. 676 $a272/.1 700 $aDigeser$b Elizabeth DePalma$f1959-$01281561 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910818937603321 996 $aA threat to public piety$93984290 997 $aUNINA