All Gaza's temples are torn down and burned and the city is cleansed of every belief but the Christian faith. The most stubborn opponents, faute de mieux, are tied up, marched away to the provincial capital, severely tortured, and all… — Ramsay MacMullen Copy Share Image
Anyone who asserted wrong teachings, anyone serving the devil or his demons, earned instead an equally remarkable antagonism. In their official high meetings together, Christians thus could not keep their own disagreements within the bounds of civil language; their continual… — Ramsay MacMullen Copy Share Image
All Gaza's temples are torn down and burned and the city is cleansed of every belief but the Christian faith. The most stubborn opponents,… — Ramsay MacMullen Copy Share Image
“Simplicity could only have been bought at a great price in accuracy.” — Ramsay MacMullen Copy Share Image
More Christians died for their faith at the hands of fellow Christians than had died before in all the persecutions. — Ramsay MacMullen Copy Share Image
“...god contradicts his own perfection if he can be reached, touched, disturbed, or in any way changed from it by anything in this material… — Ramsay MacMullen Copy Share Image
“Last, we may suppose that it gave pleasure both to relate and to hear wonderful stories, because such is human nature; and the pleasure… — Ramsay MacMullen Copy Share Image
It is a very good exercise, at least from a historian's point of view, to imagine oneself a devout pagan while reading various Christian… — Ramsay MacMullen Copy Share Image
Anyone who asserted wrong teachings, anyone serving the devil or his demons, earned instead an equally remarkable antagonism. In their official high meetings together,… — Ramsay MacMullen Copy Share Image
