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Tertullian’s Understanding of Sacred Places and the Differentiation of Christians from Pagans
Naoki Kamimura
With the continued expansion of Christianity in Roman North Africa, violence and harassment affected the Christian community. Tertullian of Carthage referred both to the reality of Christian groups in Roman provinces of Africa Proconsularis and to these times of persecution. He considered the struggles and conflicts between Christians and non-Christians as a stimulus for believers of the Christian God to distance themselves from defenders of the traditional gods of Rome and Africa, in particular, idolaters. It is noteworthy that the eager for distinction enables us to perceive significant changes of a spatial sensibility from the late second century. While this desire for differentiation is often evident in the case of martyrdom in the writings of Tertullian, his description of Christian worship suggests a new mapping of sacred places to be productive for Christian identification. Tertullian designated certain tombs and places of assembly as Christian. He connected the ecclesia with a physical place. In this paper, I shall deal with some treatises of Tertullian and consider the way in which both internal and external affiliation of Christians were formed, together with conceptions of sacred place. In the process, I shall pay particular attention to the environment that could provide the framework of religious places in the North African landscape.
From norm to identity: Christians and Manichaeans in Codex Theodosianus XVI: separated by the law, in ST. BENOIST et alii (eds.), Figures de l’empire, fragments de mémoire: pouvoirs et identités dans le monde romain impérial , II s. av.n..e.-VI s. de n.e. Villeneuve d’Ascq 2011, 503-529. .pdf
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Review: I. Sandwell, Religious Identity in Late Antiquity, Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge 2007
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Pierluigi Lanfranchi
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Jérôme Lagouanère
Christian Identity and the Construction of Spiritual Training in the Writings of Tertullian, Cyprian, and Lactantius
2016 •
Naoki Kamimura
The tradition of the spiritual training in late antiquity has received frequent scholarly attention. Pierre Hadot, a French classical scholar, defines it as a " metamorphosis of our personality. " While taking into consideration of the purely intellectual training of the mind, Hadot examines spiritual discipline in its more holistic manifestation: the purgation of the soul by exercising all facets of human behaviour and thought. It is interesting to note that the spiritual training in question varied according to the circ*mstances of the Greco-Roman tradition. Justin Martyr maintained that philosophical investigation could guide Christians to the understanding of divine truth. Tertullian understood Christian martyr acts as an indispensable vehicle for the articulation of the Christian identity. After the rapid expansion of Christianity in North Africa during the second century, the issue of spiritual training appears to be a guiding thread of the making of the Christian identity of North Africans. How did Tertullian and his successors express the significance of the spiritual discipline in the community of faith? In this paper, I shall ask how Tertullian, Cyprian, and Lactantius understood the concept of spiritual training. I shall consider it from the viewpoint of its significance and limits in constructing the Christian identity, thereby exploring it as part of a Christian programme of self-cultivation in its ascetic, intellectual, and exegetical aspect.
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Carson Bay
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Maia Kotrosits
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Roman Religion in the Vision of Tertullian
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cecilia ames
... Finally we will analyze the critics of the Roman rituals in De spectaculis. Ad nationes Ad nationes, put together by Tertullian in 197, is the first Christian apology in Latin to have reached us. It consists of two books and was perhaps intended to be an 460 Cecilia Ames Page 5. ...
Past Imperfect
Éric Rebillard and Jörg Rüpke, eds., Group Identity and Religious Individuality in Late Antiquity
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Carson Bay
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David Wilhite
