«Violenti Rapiunt Regnum» L'esercizio della violenza nell'esperienza martiriale dell'Africa romana
It is not possible to make a proper assessment of early Christian hagiographical sources if one ignores their theological and liturgical context in which the eschatological-apocalyptic perspective predominates: the martyr is in fact the one who, in advance, opens the doors of the Kingdom, which repr...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | Italian |
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Morcelliana
[2018]
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| In: |
Studi e materiali di storia delle religioni
Year: 2018, Volume: 84, Issue: 2, Pages: 219-252 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Church
/ North Africa
/ Christianity
/ Martyr
/ Eschatology
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| IxTheo Classification: | KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity KCD Hagiography; saints NBQ Eschatology |
| Further subjects: | B
Escathology
B Africa romana B Martyrs B DOCTRINAL theology B violenza religiosa B Christianity B Martyrdom B Islamic Martyrdom B Christian Martyrdom B Christians B martirio islamico B Religious Violence B Roman Africa B Escatologia B Martirio cristiano |
| Summary: | It is not possible to make a proper assessment of early Christian hagiographical sources if one ignores their theological and liturgical context in which the eschatological-apocalyptic perspective predominates: the martyr is in fact the one who, in advance, opens the doors of the Kingdom, which represents the final goal of the Christian itinerary in the world. In this perspective the martyr is not merely the object of violence by the saeculum dominated by Satan, but in turn becomes in some cases, specifically in Roman Africa, a participant in the action of God intended to restore tangibly his justice in human history, corrupted by evil. This action is explicitly expressed through the prophetic-eschatological threat of the violence's exercise by God: this is accompanied by the action taken by the martyr which may, in the post-Constantinian age, even decline into military-type actions, as is the case of the Agonistic hosts led by the sanctorum duces. In the view of the present world's crisis, in which the divergent perspectives from which the phenomenon of the so-called "Islamic terrorism" and the claim by its protagonists of its martyrial status take on special significance, we sought conclude our contribution with a comparison between this theme in the early Christian martyrology and some sources of Islamic matrix: this comparison aims to provoke some questions of great interest in the contemporary debate. |
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| ISSN: | 2611-8742 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Studi e materiali di storia delle religioni
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