Radical Martyrdom and Cosmic Conflict in Early Christianity
, by Middleton, PaulNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780567041647 | 0567041646
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 8/30/2006
Re-examines the presentation, theology, and origins of Christian martyrdom up to the beginning of the Decian persecutions. However, this project argues that, far from being a deviant strand of early Christianity, radical martyrdom was a significant, and widely held idealized form of Christ-devotion in the late first to early third centuries.