Bibliograph

Pagans and Christians in the city, culture wars from the Tiber to the Potomac, Steven D. Smith

Type

Label

Pagans and Christians in the city, culture wars from the Tiber to the Potomac, Steven D. Smith

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Pagans and Christians in the city

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1023603297

Responsibility statement

Steven D. Smith

Series statement

Emory University studies in law and religion

Sub title

culture wars from the Tiber to the Potomac

Summary

"Traditionalist Christians who oppose same-sex marriage and other cultural developments in the United States wonder why they are being forced to bracket their beliefs in order to participate in public life. This situation is not new, says Steven D. Smith: Christians two thousand years ago faced very similar challenges. Picking up poet T. S. Eliot's World War II-era thesis that the future of the West would be determined by a contest between Christianity and "modern paganism," Smith argues in this book that today's culture wars can be seen as a reprise of the basic antagonism that pitted pagans against Christians in the Roman Empire. Smith's Pagans and Christians in the City looks at that historical conflict and explores how the same competing ideas continue to clash today. All of us, Smith shows, have much to learn by observing how patterns from ancient history are reemerging in today's most controversial issues"--Dust jacket flap

Target audience

adult

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Culture wars from the Tiber to the Potomac

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