Martyrdom as a Paradoxical Testimony of Life in the Acts and Passions of the Christian Martyrs

Jan M. Kozłowski

Warszawa , Poland


Abstract

In ancient Christian literature (including the Acts of the Christian Martyrs), one can encounter many passages showing that the “eternal life” is not exactly the other life in the “world to come”, but a reality in which the Christian already participates during worldly existence.

Keywords:

martyrdom, testimony, acta martyrum, passio martyrum, martyrs, persecution, Christians

w opracowywaniu

Published
2006-06-15


Kozłowski, J. M. (2006). Męczeństwo jako paradoksalne świadectwo życia w aktach i pasjach męczenników. Vox Patrum, 49, 307–318. https://doi.org/10.31743/vp.8217

Jan M. Kozłowski 
Warszawa



License

Papers published in Vox Patrum are covered by the Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-ND 4.0) licence. Authors and users can use published works licensed under the CC-BY-ND since 2018. For earlier publications, copyrights are available under fair use rights in accordance with the Act of February 4, 1994 on copyrights and related rights.