"Since Those Days All Things Have Progressed for the Better": Tradition, Progress, and Creation in Ambrose of Milan
In Ambrose’s apologetic writing against the Roman prefect Symmachus, he makes a surprising argument for Christianity’s superiority over Roman religious practices, arguing that Christianity is in fact a newer and therefore superior form of religion. The whole world has "progressed" and so m...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
[2020]
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Harvard theological review
Year: 2020, Volume: 113, Issue: 4, Pages: 440-459 |
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Ambrose Saint, Bishop of Milan 339-397
/ Creation
/ Tradition
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| RelBib Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity NBD Doctrine of Creation |
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Apologetic
B Pro-Nicene B Creation B Tradition B Ambrose |
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