Religious Toleration in Classical Antiquity
| العنوان: | Religious Toleration in Classical Antiquity |
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| المؤلفون: | Peter Garnsey |
| المصدر: | Studies in Church History. 21:1-27 |
| بيانات النشر: | Cambridge University Press (CUP), 1984. |
| سنة النشر: | 1984 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | History, Paganism, 060103 classics, Sociology and Political Science, Acquiescence, Judaism, media_common.quotation_subject, Philosophy, Compromise, Religious studies, Environmental ethics, 06 humanities and the arts, Toleration, Christianity, 060104 history, Politics, Action (philosophy), 0601 history and archaeology, media_common |
| الوصف: | Toleration Implies disapproval or disagreement coupled with an unwillingness to take action against those who are viewed with disfavour in the interest of some moral or political principle. It is an active concept, not to be confused with indifference, apathy or passive acquiescence. In this paper I reexamine, in the light of this strong definition of toleration, the contrast commonly drawn for the world of classical antiquity between a tolerant paganism and an intolerant Christianity. Toleration implies a degree of acceptance as well as a degree of disapproval. In evaluating the attitudes of pagans to other pagans in antiquity we must satisfy ourselves, first, that ancient polytheistic systems were as open and inclusive as is often assumed, and second, that where mutual acceptance might be said to have prevailed, this was not merely casual acceptance, but entailed compromise between competing gods and rituals. Again where religions can be seen to have been seriously at variance with each other, as were the sundry pagan cults with Judaism and Christianity, where therefore toleration was at least in principle a possible option, we must ask how far pagan authorities and (in so far as this can be discerned) ordinary pagans were inclined to choose that option. |
| تدمد: | 2059-0644 0424-2084 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::3d872284e41bb98b1503df9399fc7227 https://doi.org/10.1017/s0424208400007506 |
| حقوق: | CLOSED |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsair.doi...........3d872284e41bb98b1503df9399fc7227 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 20590644 04242084 |
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