The End of Dialogue in Antiquity. Edited by Simon Goldhill
This book departs from the much-used commonplace that in Late Antiquity ‘dialogue’ declined because Christians ‘didn’t do dialogue’ (cf. p. 1). In his introduction (pp. 1–11) Simon Goldhill points out that this view is based on a present-day understanding of dialogue as an open-minded negotiation or...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2009
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2009, Volume: 60, Issue: 2, Pages: 662-664 |
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| Summary: | This book departs from the much-used commonplace that in Late Antiquity ‘dialogue’ declined because Christians ‘didn’t do dialogue’ (cf. p. 1). In his introduction (pp. 1–11) Simon Goldhill points out that this view is based on a present-day understanding of dialogue as an open-minded negotiation or conversation between differing parties, political, religious, or cultural, without the intention of persuading the other party of, let alone coercing it into, accepting one's own position. Even if such an understanding of dialogue should have existed in Antiquity, Goldhill argues, it would be inaccessible to us today, for all we have for our study of dialogue in Antiquity are written sources. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flp084 |