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Justin Buol

Martyred for the Church

Memorializations of the Effective Deaths of Bishop Martyrs in the Second Century CE
[Für die Kirche gemartert. Erinnerungen an die wirkmächtigen Tode bischöflicher Märtyrer im zweiten Jahrhundert n.Chr.]
2018. X, 334 pages.
  • sewn paper
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  • 978-3-16-156389-8
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Summary
Justin Buol draws on Greco-Roman and biblical accounts of leaders' beneficial deaths for their followers in order to argue that second-century accounts of bishops' martyrdoms portray the bishops as dying to unite, strengthen, and protect the Church from the dangers of false belief.

Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 2. Reihe (WUNT II)