C C 302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Antichrist, Religious Pluralism, Cultural Imperialism
4 Jan 2017
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Some reasons for persecution: most often: local issue rather than empire-wide. Ii. emperor worship and state cults - civic or civil religion; christ vs. antichrist: most emperors acquired divine status after death, celebrate emperor"s birthday, civic function (purely civic/simple religion), meet with people. Scared that if you register, could come and persecute easily. if don"t register. Didn"t have churches at that time, only house churches = neighbors saw and. Illegal organization - register or not? though = violation of roman law. gray area. Vi. economic reasons; diana of ephesus = biggest temple in the world (one of the 7 wonders). (cp pp. 81-82) of rioting differ from place to place, but the only key issue was the christian supremacy claim. People rioted against paul. if christianity takes over = no more business. reasons. Case example of christianity building on and extending earlier concepts: stoicism: founded by zeno (early 3rd cent.
