Violence in Ancient Christianity: Victims and Perpetrators: 125 (Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae, 125) - Hardcover

"The volume draws attention to one of the ongoing ghallenges in the ever-expanding field of ancient Christian studies, namely the relative chasm between European and American Scholarship. (...) Relatively few scholars have managed to consistently and effectively traverse the geographic and methodological boundaries between the so-called old and new worlds. Publications like the one at hand, by presenting quality scholarship to an international audience, are no doubt key in remedying such omissions on both sides. As such, Geljon and Roukema's volume is to be commended to all parties seriously interested in violence in early Christianity." - Maria E. Doerfler, Durham, in: Theologische Literaturzeitung 141 (2016), 1/2

The ambivalence of ancient Christianity toward violence is investigated in ten studies, ranging from the persecution of Christians to Christian oppression of Jews, heretics and pagans, and the application of Jesus’ teaching to love one’s enemies.