Topics in Ancient Christianity.

GRS RN 798

Topic for Fall 2008: Augustine on Sacred Violence. How did the church, within four centuries, shift from persecuted to persecutor? Consideration of this question beginning with representations of violence in the New Testament, and ending with Augustine's principled advocacy of religious coercion.

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