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Ausgabe:

Dezember/2014

Spalte:

1457–1459

Kategorie:

Kirchengeschichte: Alte Kirche, Christliche Archäologie

Autor/Hrsg.:

Fürst, Alfons, Ahmed, Luise, Gers-Uphaus, Christian, u. Stefan Klug [Hrsg.]

Titel/Untertitel:

Monotheistische Denkfiguren in der Spätantike.

Verlag:

Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2013. VIII, 293 S. = Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum, 81. Kart. EUR 74,00. ISBN 978-3-16-152385-4.

Rezensent:

Peter Van Nuffelen

In recent years, the concept of ›monotheism‹ has been hotly debat­ed in the field of late ancient and early Christian studies. This was triggered by general discussions about monotheism spurred by Jan Assmann’s work, the re-affirmation of the notion of pagan monotheism, and an increased reception of discussions about the emergence of Jewish monotheism. This volume is a product of the DFG-projekt ›Die Rhetorik des Monotheismus im Römischen Reich‹, directed by A. Fürst in Münster.
The volume opens with a programmatic and characteristically dense paper by Alfons Fürst. He first reviews recent debates, which he considers to have used monotheism too easily as a well-defined category without sufficiently taking into account its charged his-tory. The term ›pagan ...


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