• Ramsay MacMullen (March 3, 1928 – November 28, 2022) was an American historian who was Emeritus Professor of History at Yale University, where he taught...
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    MacMullen, Ramsay. Christianizing the Roman Empire A.D. 100–400. New Haven, CT; London: Yale University Press, 1984. ISBN 978-0-300-03642-8 MacMullen...
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    Cited in Christianity and Paganism in the Fourth to Eighth Centuries, Ramsay MacMullen. Yale:1997, p. 155. Newton, Isaac, Observations on the Prophecies of...
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  • McMullen (born 1980), American football player Katelyn MacMullen (born 1995), American actress Norman MacMullen (1877–1944), British officer Ramsay MacMullen...
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    as a liar, the "first thoroughly dishonest historian of antiquity." Ramsay MacMullen in the 20th century regarded Eusebius's work as representative of early...
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    harsh and frequently horrifying, leading some historians, such as Ramsay MacMullen, to see them as a 'declaration of war' on traditional religious practices...
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    Artemis, and the Jews in Ephesus, de Gruyter, 1996, p. 157. Acts 19:27 MacMullen, Ramsay (1984). Christianizing the Roman Empire A.D. 100–400. p. 26. Strelan...
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    poem of desire addressed to a male with a Greek name. In the view of Ramsay MacMullen, who is of the opinion that, before the flood of Greek influence, the...
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  • com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Augustine-Sermons-20-51.pdf (PDF)) Ramsay MacMullen, Christianity and Paganism in the Fourth to Eighth Centuries, Yale...
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    is MacMullen's conclusion (1984:87). "The vita "comes to be routinely cited as real history by all sorts of fine scholars" writes Ramsay MacMullen in...
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    subject to penalties ranging from exile to death, says Classical scholar Ramsay MacMullen. All the gospels defend Jesus against the charge, which, if true, would...
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     141. Christianity and Paganism in the Fourth to Eighth Centuries, Ramsay MacMullen. Yale:1997, p. 155). Webb, Matilda (2001). The Churches and Catacombs...
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    Rennes; Paganism and Christianity, 100–425 C.E.: A Sourcebook, edited by Ramsay MacMullen and Eugene N. Lane (Augsburg Fortress, 1992), pp. 76–77. CIL 13.3096...
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    (cited in Christianity and Paganism in the Fourth to Eighth Centuries, Ramsay MacMullen. Yale:1997, p. 155) "» Feast of the Annunciation". melkite.org. 1908...
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    Mutual Interaction (Leiden 1995), p. 103, with documentation in note 8; Ramsay MacMullen, Christianity and Paganism in the Fourth to Eighth Centuries (Yale...
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    salient activities of Roman culture: the care of the dead and what Ramsay MacMullen called the “epigraphic habit.” One of the ways that Roman epitaphs...
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    mark of socio-religious inferiority in Latin Christian polemic: [3] Ramsay MacMullen, Christianizing the Roman empire. A.D.100-400. Yale University Press...
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    Persecution and Toleration, Studies in Church History 21 (1984), 1–27 Ramsay MacMullen, Christianizing the Roman Empire: AD 100-400 (1989) ——, Christianity...
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    temple. Roman religion's characteristic openness has led many, such as Ramsay MacMullen to say that in its process of expansion, the Roman Empire was "completely...
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    pictograms. The Second Church: Popular Christianity A.D. 200–400 by Ramsay MacMullen, The Society of Biblical Literature, 2009 McKay, John; Hill, Bennett...
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    Mortibus Persecutorum) see: http://www.intratext.com/IXT/ENG0296/_P18.HTM Ramsay MacMullen, Christianising the Roman Empire, 1984 Roger E. Olson, The Story of...
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    writers, polemicists and preachers in the last decade of this period". Ramsay MacMullen writes that: "We may fairly accuse the historical record of having...
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  • of Historic Documents with Commentaries. p. 6. ISBN 9780819601896. Ramsay MacMullen, Christianity and Paganism in the Fourth to Eighth Centuries, Yale...
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    were not".: 31  This characteristic openness has led many, such as Ramsay MacMullen to say that in its process of expansion, the Roman Empire was "completely...
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    (cited in Christianity and Paganism in the Fourth to Eighth Centuries, Ramsay MacMullen. Yale:1997, p. 155) "Introduction to Calendars". United States Naval...
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    John for Everyone Ramsay MacMullen, Christianizing the Roman Empire, AD 100–400 1984:23, 108. MacMullen 1984:40. Quoted in MacMullen 1984:22. "Are Miracles...
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    Trebizond and the Pontos, London: Variorum Reprints, ISBN 0-86078-062-7 Ramsay MacMullen, 2000. Romanization in the Time of Augustus (Yale University Press)...
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    The end of Ancient Christianity, Cambridge University Press, 1990. Ramsay MacMullen, Christianizing the Roman Empire C.E. 100–400, Yale University Press...
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    confirmed by archaeological evidence. Historians Frank R. Trombley and Ramsay MacMullen explain that discrepancies between literary sources and archaeological...
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  • advisor Will Holt (c. 1946) – singer, songwriter, librettist, lyricist Ramsay MacMullen (1946) – professor of history at Yale University Wallace Nutting (1946)...
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