Destroyer of the Gods Hurtado Larry W.
Silly, stupid, irrational, simple. Wicked, hateful, obstinate, anti-social. Extravagant, perverse. The Roman world rendered harsh judgments upon early Christianity--including branding Christianity…
Specifikacia Destroyer of the Gods Hurtado Larry W.
Silly, stupid, irrational, simple. Wicked, hateful, obstinate, anti-social. Extravagant, perverse. The Roman world rendered harsh judgments upon early Christianity--including branding Christianity new. Novelty was no Roman religious virtue.Nevertheless, as Larry W. Hurtado shows in Destroyer of the gods, Christianity thrived despite its new and distinctive features and opposition to them. Unlike nearly all other religious groups, Christianity utterly rejected the traditional gods of the Roman world. Christianity also offered a new and different kind of religious identity, one not based on ethnicity. Christianity was distinctively a bookish religion, with the production, copying, distribution, and reading of texts as central to its faith, even preferring a distinctive book-form, the codex. Christianity insisted that its adherents behave differently: unlike the simple
The Destroyer of Worlds
Destroyer of Light
Plants of the Gods
The Discord of Gods
Gifts of the Gods
The Gods of Men
Mote in Gods Eye Niven Larry
Return of the Gods
Destroyer of Light
The Shadow of the Gods
The Gods of Pegana
Hunger of the Gods