Pagans and Christians in the city : culture wars from the Tiber to the Potomac / Steven D. Smith.

Author Smith, Steven D. (Steven Douglas), 1952- author.

Descriptionxvi, 386 pages ; 24 cm.

Abstract:"Traditionalist Christians who oppose same-sex marriage and other cultural developments in the United States wonder why they are being forced to bracket their beliefs in order to participate in public life. This situation is not new, says Steven D. Smith: Christians two thousand years ago faced very similar challenges. Picking up poet T. S. Eliot's World War II-era thesis that the future of the West would be determined by a contest between Christianity and "modern paganism," Smith argues in this book that today's culture wars can be seen as a reprise of the basic antagonism that pitted pagans against Christians in the Roman Empire."--Dust jacket flap.

ISBN:9780802876317 hardcover alkaline paper

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