Justin Buol

Martyred for the Church

Memorializations of the Effective Deaths of Bishop Martyrs in the Second Century CE
2018. 344 pages.
DOI 10.1628/978-3-16-156390-4
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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)