The darkening age : the Christian destruction of the classical world
Nixey, Catherine
The darkening age : the Christian destruction of the classical world / Catherine Nixey - First U.S. edition. - New York : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt , 2018 - 315 p. : illus. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Prologue: A beginning -- Introduction: An ending -- The invisible army -- The battleground of demons -- Wisdom is foolishness -- "On the small number of martyrs" -- These deranged men -- The most magnificent building in the world -- To despise the temples -- How to destroy a demon -- The reckless ones -- To drink from the cup of devils -- To cleanse the error of demons -- Carpe diem -- They that forsake the way of God -- To obliterate the tyranny of joy -- "Merciful savagery" -- "A time of tyranny and crisis"
Offers a history of the rise of Christianity in the classical world that focuses on its terrible cost, in terms of violence and dogmatic intolerance, that helped bring upon the dark ages.
English.
9780544800885
Church history---Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600
Rome---Civilization---Christian influences
Greece---Civilization---Christian influences
BR162.3 / .N59 2018
270.2 NIX
The darkening age : the Christian destruction of the classical world / Catherine Nixey - First U.S. edition. - New York : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt , 2018 - 315 p. : illus. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Prologue: A beginning -- Introduction: An ending -- The invisible army -- The battleground of demons -- Wisdom is foolishness -- "On the small number of martyrs" -- These deranged men -- The most magnificent building in the world -- To despise the temples -- How to destroy a demon -- The reckless ones -- To drink from the cup of devils -- To cleanse the error of demons -- Carpe diem -- They that forsake the way of God -- To obliterate the tyranny of joy -- "Merciful savagery" -- "A time of tyranny and crisis"
Offers a history of the rise of Christianity in the classical world that focuses on its terrible cost, in terms of violence and dogmatic intolerance, that helped bring upon the dark ages.
English.
9780544800885
Church history---Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600
Rome---Civilization---Christian influences
Greece---Civilization---Christian influences
BR162.3 / .N59 2018
270.2 NIX
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