The Author: Jakob Engberg, Ph.D., is a historian working at the Faculty of Theology at the University of Aarhus (Denmark) teaching the History of Christianity and writing on the relations between pagans and Christians in the Roman Empire.

• Contents: Pagan, convert, Jew, Christian – Church: imagined community – Formalism, substantivism – Spectrum of opposition, opponents: persecution, plaintiff, harassment, polemic – Motives, realistic, xenophobic, chimerical hostility – Roman Empire – Early Christian texts, martyr-narratives, pagan authors on Christians, apologetics.

The Author: Jakob Engberg, Ph.D., is a historian working at the Faculty of Theology at the University of Aarhus (Denmark) teaching the History of Christianity and writing on the relations between pagans and Christians in the Roman Empire.

• Contents: Pagan, convert, Jew, Christian – Church: imagined community – Formalism, substantivism – Spectrum of opposition, opponents: persecution, plaintiff, harassment, polemic – Motives, realistic, xenophobic, chimerical hostility – Roman Empire – Early Christian texts, martyr-narratives, pagan authors on Christians, apologetics.

The Author: Jakob Engberg, Ph.D., is a historian working at the Faculty of Theology at the University of Aarhus (Denmark) teaching the History of Christianity and writing on the relations between pagans and Christians in the Roman Empire.

• Contents: Pagan, convert, Jew, Christian – Church: imagined community – Formalism, substantivism – Spectrum of opposition, opponents: persecution, plaintiff, harassment, polemic – Motives, realistic, xenophobic, chimerical hostility – Roman Empire – Early Christian texts, martyr-narratives, pagan authors on Christians, apologetics.