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Title: Against the Christians
Author : Jeffrey W. Hargis
Release Date : January 08, 2001
Genre: Religion & Spirituality,Books,
Pages : * pages
Size : 1061 KB

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‘Against the Christians’ examines the anti-Christian polemic works of Celsus, Porphyry, and Julian the Apostate. The first book to analyze the phenomenon of early anti-Christian literature in depth, it chooses the critics' objection to Christian exclusivism as its starting point. The evolution in the polemic, from a rhetoric of radical distinction to one of «rhetorical assimilation,» reveals a sophisticated attempt to expose contradictions and inconsistencies within Christianity, while at the same time reflecting the process of fusion between Christianity and the culture of late antiquity.