Christian Identity in the Graeco-Roman World [L'ldentite chretienne dans le monde greco-romain]

"In recent theological bat, has often been the argued that the traditional assertions absolute character of Christianity were meaning become null or devoid while simply by the fact of religious pluralism. This seems to assume that [assertion of a absolute character had its meaning in a context or Christianity was exercising a religious and cultural monopoly, but loses its meaning outside this context. We can answer is that by advancing the opposite view: of its origin, Christianity affirms its absolute character, while it is not in the pluralistic situation of the Roman Empire. In other words, it is precisely a situation religious and cultural pluralism which is the birthplace of this statement an absolute character. Thus, a study more thorough the process by which the Christianity s' is defined in the world grecoromain makes sense given the current situation" ["Dans le de bat theologique recent, l a souvent ete soutenu que les affirmations traditionnelles du caractere absolu du christianisme etaient devenues nulles ou denuees de sens, tout simplement par le fait du pluralisme religieux. Ceci semble supposer que ['affirmation d'un caractere absolu avait son sens dans un contexte ou le christianisme exercait un monopole religieux et culturel, mais qu'elle perd son sens en dehors de ce context. On peut repondre a cela en avancant la these opposee: des son origine, le christianisme a affirme son caractere absolu, alors qu'il est ne au sein de la situation pluraliste de l'empire romain. Autrement dit, c'est precisement une situation de pluralisme religieux et culturel qui a constitue le milieu d'origine de cette affirmation d'un caractere absolu. Ainsi, une etude plus approfondie du processus par lequel le christianisme s' est defini dans le monde grecoromain prend tout son sens au vu de la situation actuelle"]

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1993

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