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12 sie 2011 · By considering the ‘one god’ inscriptions that are found in the Near East in pagan, Jewish, Samaritan and Christian traditions, Markschies shows how fluid the lived reality of ancient religion was, between polytheism and monotheism.
Some scholars of ancient philosophy have recently challenged this non-theological reading of pagan religion, recognizing the spiritual dimensions of the ancient philosophical schools. The present volume includes studies of pagan monotheism both in cult and in philosophy.
John North asks whether pagan monotheism is a concept that would have been comprehensible to ancient Greeks and Romans and that they could have used to express their religious beliefs.
30 lis 2010 · How should we define ‘pagan monotheism’, and how useful is the concept for illuminating religious developments in the first four centuries ad? And can we classify significant aspects of pagan cultic activity during this period as monotheistic?
1 sty 2011 · One God: Pagan Monotheism in the Roman Empire (review) January 2011. Journal of Early Christian Studies 19 (3):482-484. DOI: 10.1353/earl.2011.0040. Authors: John Peter Kenney. To read the...
Theology and Religion. Article Stephen Mitchell / Peter van Nuffelen (Eds.), One God. Pagan Monotheism in the Roman Empire. Cambridge/New York/Melbourne, Cambridge University Press 2010 was published on October 1, 2012 in the journal Historische Zeitschrift (volume 295, issue 2).
If understood in this way, ‘pagan monotheism’ can become a fruitful heuristic tool for studying how ancient philosophical conceptions of the divine came into contact with traditional religion, and for understanding some of the changes in the religious outlook of the Roman Empire. 1.
