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Pagan and Christian in an Age of Anxiety: Some Aspects of Religious Experience from Marcus Aurelius to Constantine (1965)

door E. R. Dodds

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Interest in the world of Late Antiquity is currently undergoing a significant revival, and in this provocative book, now reissued in paperback, E. R. Dodds anticipated some of the themes now engaging scholars. There is abundant material for the study of religious experience in late antiquity, and through it Professor Dodds examines, from a sociological and psychological standpoint, the personal religious attitudes and experiences common to pagans and Christians in the period between Marcus Aurelius and Constantine. He looks first at general attitudes to the world and the human condition before turning to specific types of human experience. World-hatred and asceticism, dreams and states of possession, and pagan and Christian mysticism are all discussed. Finally Dodds considers both pagan views of Christianity and Christian views of paganism as they emerge in the literature of the time. Although primarily written for social and religious historians, this study will also appeal to all those interested in the ancient world and its thought.… (meer)

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A good book, but flawed by the primary limits of all such books -- a reliance on the writings of the intellectuals of the times. At that, he ignores the likelihood that other writings by less fashionable authors have been lost or suppressed.
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ibonewits | Oct 22, 2016 |

An interesting and quite well-written, though ultimately unconvincing, work, Pagan and Christian in an Age of Anxiety brings together a series of four lectures given by E.R. Dodds on the subject of religious experience between about 161 and 312CE. That Dodds was writing in the 1960s is readily apparent—he draws almost exclusively on literary material in order to make a case about religious experience (ignoring what is surely a wealth of epigraphic material!), and he interprets the evidence largely through a Freudian lens. He elucidates beautifully the ways in which Christian and polytheist Neo-Platonists influenced and drew on one another, but in the light of more recent scholarship which has reassessed the nature and the vigour of polytheism in the Later Roman Empire, Dodds' thesis (that an enervated polytheism couldn't resist Christianity's innovations and energy) is ultimately unconvincing. (

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siriaeve | May 1, 2011 |

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/1966/feb/17/heresies/

w.h.auden | Feb 18, 2008 |

This is a series of lectures (4) on various aspects of Christian Pagan spirituality. It has a rambling quality that often fails to satisfy, however there are gems and wry comments sprinkled throughout. The method of comparison is one of textual literary analysis, something that might seem a little old-fashioned especially when one considers how little of the writings of Late Antiquity has come down to us. (Ie, you can't make generalizations on religious behavior with such scanty evidence.) Get it for its fluent discussion of various Christian sects and their silliness (the author is an admitted agnostic). (

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Interest in the world of Late Antiquity is currently undergoing a significant revival, and in this provocative book, now reissued in paperback, E. R. Dodds anticipated some of the themes now engaging scholars. There is abundant material for the study of religious experience in late antiquity, and through it Professor Dodds examines, from a sociological and psychological standpoint, the personal religious attitudes and experiences common to pagans and Christians in the period between Marcus Aurelius and Constantine. He looks first at general attitudes to the world and the human condition before turning to specific types of human experience. World-hatred and asceticism, dreams and states of possession, and pagan and Christian mysticism are all discussed. Finally Dodds considers both pagan views of Christianity and Christian views of paganism as they emerge in the literature of the time. Although primarily written for social and religious historians, this study will also appeal to all those interested in the ancient world and its thought.

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