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The Development of the Idea of History in Antiquity, Volume 2 (Hardcover)
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The Development of the Idea of History in Antiquity, Volume 2 (Hardcover)
Series: McGill-Queen’s Studies in the Hist of Id
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An extensive scholarly literature, written in the past century,
holds that in ancient Greek and Roman thought history is understood
as circular and repetitive - a consequence of their anti-temporal
metaphysics - in contrast with Judaeo-Christian thought, which sees
history as linear and unique - a consequence of their messianic and
hence radically temporal theology. Gerald Press presents a more
general view - that the Graeco-Roman and Judaeo-Christian cultures
were fundamentally alien and opposed cultural forces and that,
therefore, Christianity's victory over paganism included the
replacement or supersession of one intellectual world by another -
and then shows that, contrary to this view, there was substantial
continuity between "pagan" and Christian ideas of history in
antiquity, rather than a striking opposition between cyclic and
linear patterns. He finds that the foundation of the Christian view
of history as goal-directed lies in the rhetorical rather than the
theological motives of early Christian writers.
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