caa a22 4500 388041609 CHVBK 20180307125023.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199811 xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/300808 doi S0075435800044142 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.2307/300808 Digeser Elizabeth DePalma St. Norbert College, DePere, USA Lactantius, Porphyry, and the Debate over Religious Toleration [Elektronische Daten] [Elizabeth DePalma Digeser] Did the events surrounding Diocletian's persecution of 303-311 launch a debate over religious toleration? The first suggestion that they did occurs in Porphyry's Philosophy from Oracles, a defence of traditional religion and theology in three books. Writing before the persecution, the celebrated Neoplatonist philosopher from Tyre, a man whom several Christian emperors and church councils would soon condemn, asked the question that stood at the heart of the persecution: How can these people [i.e., Christians] be thought worthy of forbearance (συϒϒώμη) ? They have not only turned away from those who from earliest time are referred to as divine among all Greeks and barbarians ... and by emperors, law-givers and philosophers—all of a common mind. But also, in choosing impieties and atheism, they have preferred their fellow creatures [i.e., to worshipping the divine]. And to what sort of penalties might they not justly be subjected who ... are fugitives from the things of their fathers? Copyright ©Elizabeth DePalma Digeser 1998. Exclusive Licence to Publish: The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies Journal of Roman Studies Cambridge University Press 88(1998-11), 129-146 0075-4358 88<129 1998 88 JRS https://doi.org/10.2307/300808 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/300808 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Digeser Elizabeth DePalma St. Norbert College, DePere, USA NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Roman Studies Cambridge University Press 88(1998-11), 129-146 0075-4358 88<129 1998 88 JRS CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge