I rooted around for Conley's article.
I found it below, although it no longer seems to be posted online. It may once have been online at RadicalKritik (I have shurely spellded it wrong).
IIRC, and this was 24 years ago, Conley drew upon his experiences researching a pamphlet for the Dept of the Army in the midst of the Vietnam conflict, where he obtained and analyzed statistics about things like how many medical staff and food and medical care programs the N. Vietnamese army and the S. Vietnamese Viet Cong had dedicated to winning the hearts of the S Vietnamese people. It was not all brutal as depicted in Hollywood movies like Green Berets. They had many dedicated humanitarians on their side.
Conley felt that there was a parallel to be drawn in the social programs that the Roman Christian church(es) exercised, under adverse conditions and direct attacks or police actions, that did in fact, over time, win over the common folk.
See Michael Conley, "St. Ignatius: The Insidious Pragmatism of the Episkopoi of Rome and the Rise of Christianity"
Journal of Higher Criticism 7/2 (Fall, 2000), 242-285.
He picked on Ignatius because he advocated for a strong central authority in each town, a bishop, assisted by presbyters & deacons. I'm not sure where he got his numbers from to provide descriptions of how the Church of Rome had operated hospitals, food distribution programs, etc., probably Eusebius.
On what basis did he draw these conclusions?
See Michael Charles Conley, The Communist insurgent infrastructure in South Vietnam: a study of organization and strategy, Washington DC: Headquarters, Department of the Army, 1967. Department of the Army pamphlet no. 550-106.
Maybe someone has archived a copy of the former JHC article?
DCH
I found it below, although it no longer seems to be posted online. It may once have been online at RadicalKritik (I have shurely spellded it wrong).
IIRC, and this was 24 years ago, Conley drew upon his experiences researching a pamphlet for the Dept of the Army in the midst of the Vietnam conflict, where he obtained and analyzed statistics about things like how many medical staff and food and medical care programs the N. Vietnamese army and the S. Vietnamese Viet Cong had dedicated to winning the hearts of the S Vietnamese people. It was not all brutal as depicted in Hollywood movies like Green Berets. They had many dedicated humanitarians on their side.
Conley felt that there was a parallel to be drawn in the social programs that the Roman Christian church(es) exercised, under adverse conditions and direct attacks or police actions, that did in fact, over time, win over the common folk.
See Michael Conley, "St. Ignatius: The Insidious Pragmatism of the Episkopoi of Rome and the Rise of Christianity"
Journal of Higher Criticism 7/2 (Fall, 2000), 242-285.
He picked on Ignatius because he advocated for a strong central authority in each town, a bishop, assisted by presbyters & deacons. I'm not sure where he got his numbers from to provide descriptions of how the Church of Rome had operated hospitals, food distribution programs, etc., probably Eusebius.
On what basis did he draw these conclusions?
See Michael Charles Conley, The Communist insurgent infrastructure in South Vietnam: a study of organization and strategy, Washington DC: Headquarters, Department of the Army, 1967. Department of the Army pamphlet no. 550-106.
Maybe someone has archived a copy of the former JHC article?
DCH
Statistics: Posted by DCHindley — Wed Apr 03, 2024 7:07 pm