@article{Teister_Uciecha_2012, title={Postawa chrześcijan Kościoła perskiego w czasie prześladowań Szapura II}, volume={57}, url={https://czasopisma.kul.pl/index.php/vp/article/view/4167}, DOI={10.31743/vp.4167}, abstractNote={<p>The subject of this article deals with Persian Christians in the period of the persecution of Shapur II. The ruler derived from the Sassanid dynasty had gov­erned the Persian Empire since 309 to 379 and on that time of his reign Sassanid Empire saw its first golden era. The three source accounts were analysed: <em>Demonstrations </em>of Aphrahat, The <em>History </em>of the Hermias Sozomenus and <em>Chronica Seertensis </em>– nestorianical source dated from the IX or X century. Each of analysed reports concerning the persecution of the Persian Christians appears to be interesting and noteworthy. In his <em>Church History </em>Hermias accepted the role of external factors in origin and turn of events of Church persecution in Persia in the IV century (magicians and Jews). Nestorian author of <em>Chronica Seertensis </em>has also made observations of these groups in forming the antichristian politics of the Persian ruler but besides that he even expands theological reflection: the persecution should be interpreted as the time of trial, strengthening the faith and calling on to convert. The Aphrahat in his <em>Demonstrations</em>, particularly in his <em>Synodical Letter </em>had briefed the similar historical-redemptive conception in the martyr theology but judging the posture of Simeon negatively.</p>}, journal={Vox Patrum}, author={Teister, Wojciech and Uciecha, Andrzej}, year={2012}, month={Jun.}, pages={667–676} }