Robert J. Daly

Sacrifice in Pagan and Christian Antiquity (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Robert J. Daly S.J. examines the concept of sacrifice in the ancient Mediterranean world, and discusses how the rise of bloodless Christian sacrifice, and the use of sacrificial language in reference to highly spiritualized Christian lives, would have seemed unsettling and radically challenging to the pagan mind.

Acknowledging the difficulties posed by an overwhelmingly Christian scholarly narrative around the topic of sacrifice, Daly specifically sets out to tell the non-Christian side of this story. He first outlines the pagan trajectory, and then the Jewish-Christian trajectory, before concluding with a representative series of comparisons and contrasts. Covering the concept of sacrifice in relation to prayer, ethics and morality, the rhetoric and economics of sacrificial ceremonies, and heroes and saints, Daly finishes with an estimation of how this study might inform further study of sacrifice.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. August 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780567687029
• Artikelnr.: 57396656

Autorenporträt

Robert J. Daly, S.J., Emeritus Professor of Theology at Boston College, is the author of Christian Sacrificeand The Origins of the Christian Doctrine of Sacrifice. His recent articles, mostly in Theological Studies, have focused on Eucharist, sacrifice, and atonement.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Part I: Introduction, Methodological and Hermeneutical Issues
Preliminary Notes The History of Religions Postmodern Approaches The Elites
in Antiquity and Christianity What Is Sacrifice? The Sacrificial World
Confronting Ancient Christianity Sacrifice in Human History The Unity of
the Ancient World of Sacrifice The "End" of Paganism? Part II: The
Greco-Roman Trajectory From Homer and Hesiod up to Heraclitus and Plato
Anaximenes Theophrastus Philo of Alexandria Apollonius of Tyana Heliodorus
of Emesa Plutarch Lucian Porphyry Iamblichus Sallust Symmachus Macrobius
and the "End" of Paganism Part III: The Jewish-Christian Trajectory
Preliminary Note: The Many Meanings of Sacrifice Transitional Note The
Hebrew Scriptures Excursus 1: "Leave your gift there before the altar"
(Matthew 5:24) Excursus 2: Spiritualization The Christian Scriptures (New
Testament) Early Christianity Preliminary Note: the General Situation
Excursus 3: A Trinitarian View of Sacrifice Excursus 4: The Eucharist as
Sacrifice Part IV: Select Points of Comparison and Contrast Prayer and
Sacrifice Divination and Sacrifice Ethics, Morality, and Sacrifice The
Purpose of Sacrifice The Rhetoric of Sacrifice The "Economics" of Sacrifice
Heroes and Saints Part V: Concluding Summary and Looking Ahead Index of
Names Subject Index