Radical Martyrdom and Cosmic Conflict in Early Christianity (Library of New Testament Studies)

by PaulMiddleton (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2006

  $276.68

  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.