Counter-culture of Compassion : The Early Christian View of Roman Games and the Possibilities of its Application in the Contemporary Relationship of Church and Society

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.25167/so.5571" target="_blank" >10.25167/so.5571</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Counter-culture of Compassion : The Early Christian View of Roman Games and the Possibilities of its Application in the Contemporary Relationship of Church and Society

Original language description

Christian martyrdom can be seen as an expression of the counter-cultural reality of the Church, her conflicting tension between the world and the coming kingdom of Heaven. In this context, it is also a problematic concept that, in many cases, leads to violence and avoids the possibility of dialogue; however, it inseparably belongs to the heart of Christi-anity. Because of that, we should think about it in new and fruitful ways. This paper tries to think specifically about early Christian martyrdom in the context of a victim perspective and critique of the Roman gladiatorial games, concentrating on the element of compassion, which was unexpected in the Roman empire of the first centuries after Christ. That per-spective of compassion is something that we can grasp, like the substantial essence of early Christian martyrdom, and which is also meaningful for our time and situation of mainly Church-society relations. This is shown with peak Christian game critique - Tertullian&apos;s On Games, and examples of the three oldest martyrdoms - Martyrdom of Polycarp, Martyrs of Lyon and Vienne,and Passion of Perpetua and Felicity. We can use that found com-passion in new situations where we, at the moment, like the Romans, do not see a need or reason for it.

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60303 - Theology

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Studia oecumenica

ISSN

1643-2762

e-ISSN

2391-940X

Volume of the periodical

24

Issue of the periodical within the volume

28. 12. 2024

Country of publishing house

PL - POLAND

Number of pages

20

Pages from-to

369-388

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