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Author : Henry Chadwick
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725230933
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (252 download)
Download or read book The Role of the Christian Bishop in Ancient Society written by Henry Chadwick and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andrew Fear
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1472504186
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)
Download or read book The Role of the Bishop in Late Antiquity written by Andrew Fear and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-02-14 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Late Antiquity witnessed a major transformation in the authority and power of the Episcopate within the Church, with the result that bishops came to embody the essence of Christianity and increasingly overshadow the leading Christian laity. The rise of Episcopal power came in a period in which drastic political changes produced long and significant conflicts both within and outside the Church. This book examines these problems in depth, looking at bishops' varied roles in both causing and resolving these disputes, including those internal to the church, those which began within the church but had major effects on wider society, and those of a secular nature.
Author : H. A. Drake
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801871047
Total Pages : 636 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Constantine and the Bishops written by H. A. Drake and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2002-09-17 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historians who viewed imperial Rome in terms of a conflict between pagans and Christians have often regarded Constantine's conversion as the triumph of Christianity over paganism. Here Drake offers a fresh understanding of Constantine's rule.
Author : Henry Chadwick
Publisher : Center for Hermeneutical Studies
ISBN 13 : 9780892420346
Total Pages : 47 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (23 download)
Download or read book The role of the Christian bishop in ancient society written by Henry Chadwick and published by Center for Hermeneutical Studies. This book was released on 1980 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Hollerich
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520295366
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Making Christian History written by Michael Hollerich and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2021-06-22 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Known as the “Father of Church History,” Eusebius was bishop of Caesarea in Palestine and the leading Christian scholar of his day. His Ecclesiastical History is an irreplaceable chronicle of Christianity’s early development, from its origin in Judaism, through two and a half centuries of illegality and occasional persecution, to a new era of tolerance and favor under the Emperor Constantine. In this book, Michael J. Hollerich recovers the reception of this text across time. As he shows, Eusebius adapted classical historical writing for a new “nation,” the Christians, with a distinctive theo-political vision. Eusebius’s text left its mark on Christian historical writing from late antiquity to the early modern period—across linguistic, cultural, political, and religious boundaries—until its encounter with modern historicism and postmodernism. Making Christian History demonstrates Eusebius’s vast influence throughout history, not simply in shaping Christian culture but also when falling under scrutiny as that culture has been reevaluated, reformed, and resisted over the past 1,700 years.
Author : Henry Chadwick
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1620320274
Total Pages : 53 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (23 download)
Download or read book The Role of the Christian Bishop in Ancient Society written by Henry Chadwick and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Claudia Rapp
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520931416
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Holy Bishops in Late Antiquity written by Claudia Rapp and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 300 and 600, Christianity experienced a momentous change from persecuted cult to state religion. One of the consequences of this shift was the evolution of the role of the bishop—as the highest Church official in his city—from model Christian to model citizen. Claudia Rapp's exceptionally learned, innovative, and groundbreaking work traces this transition with a twofold aim: to deemphasize the reign of the emperor Constantine, which has traditionally been regarded as a watershed in the development of the Church as an institution, and to bring to the fore the continued importance of the religious underpinnings of the bishop's role as civic leader. Rapp rejects Max Weber’s categories of "charismatic" versus "institutional" authority that have traditionally been used to distinguish the nature of episcopal authority from that of the ascetic and holy man. Instead she proposes a model of spiritual authority, ascetic authority and pragmatic authority, in which a bishop’s visible asceticism is taken as evidence of his spiritual powers and at the same time provides the justification for his public role. In clear and graceful prose, Rapp provides a wholly fresh analysis of the changing dynamics of social mobility as played out in episcopal appointments.
Author : Carlos R. Galvao-Sobrinho
Publisher : University of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520383168
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Doctrine and Power written by Carlos R. Galvao-Sobrinho and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2021-03-16 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the fourth century a.d., theological controversy divided Christian communities throughout the Eastern half of the Roman Empire. At stake was not only the truth about God but also the authority of church leaders, whose legitimacy depended on their claims to represent that truth. In this book, Carlos R. Galvao-Sobrinho argues that out of these disputes was born a new style of church leadership, one in which the power of the episcopal office was greatly increased. He shows how these disputes compelled church leaders repeatedly to assert their orthodoxy and legitimacy—tasks that required them to mobilize their congregations and engage in action that continuously projected their power in the public arena. These developments were largely the work of prelates of the first half of the fourth century, but the style of command they inaugurated became the basis for a dynamic model of ecclesiastical leadership found throughout late antiquity.
Author : Michael Stuart Williams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108508669
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (85 download)
Download or read book The Politics of Heresy in Ambrose of Milan written by Michael Stuart Williams and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-19 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ambrose of Milan is famous above all for his struggle with, and triumph over, 'Arian' heresy. Yet, almost all of the evidence comes from Ambrose's own writings, and from pious historians of the next generation who represented him as a champion of orthodoxy. This detailed study argues instead that an 'Arian' opposition in Milan was largely conjured up by Ambrose himself, lumping together critics and outsiders in order to secure and justify his own authority. Along with new interpretations of Ambrose's election as bishop, his controversies over the faith, and his clashes with the imperial court, this book provides a new understanding of the nature and significance of heretical communities in Late Antiquity. In place of rival congregations inflexibly committed to doctrinal beliefs, it envisages a world of more fluid allegiances in which heresy - but also consensus - could be a matter of deploying the right rhetorical frame.
Author : Everett Ferguson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780815330714
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (37 download)
Download or read book Doctrinal Diversity written by Everett Ferguson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1999 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Daniel A. Washburn
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415529255
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (155 download)
Download or read book Banishment in the Later Roman Empire, 284-476 CE written by Daniel A. Washburn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a reconstruction and interpretation of banishment in the final era of a unified Roman Empire, 284-476 CE. Author Daniel Washburn argues that exile was both a penalty and a symbol. In its sources, this work employs evidence from legal as well as literary materials to forge a complete picture of exile. To harvest all possible information from the period, it considers elements from the arenas of the early church and the Roman Empire. Methodologically, it situates ancient Christianity within the Roman world, while remaining sensitive to the distinct views and roles held by late antique bishops. While banishment played a major role in the history of the Later Empire, no work of scholarship has treated it as a topic in its own right.
Author : Cilliers Breytenbach
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900435252X
Total Pages : 1007 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Early Christianity in Lycaonia and Adjacent Areas written by Cilliers Breytenbach and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-12-11 with total page 1007 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work gives a detailed survey of the rise and expansion of Christianity in ancient Lycaonia and adjacent areas, from Paul the apostle until the late 4th-century bishop of Iconium, Amphilochius. It is essentially based on hundreds of funerary inscriptions from Lycaonia, but takes into account all available literary evidence. It maps the expansion of Christianity in the region and describes the practice of name-giving among Christians, their household and family structures, occupations, and use of verse inscriptions. It gives special attention to forms of charity, the reception of biblical tradition, the authority and leadership of the clergy, popular theology and forms of ascetic Christianity in Lycaonia.
Author : Edward L. Smither
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 0805463836
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (54 download)
Download or read book Augustine as Mentor written by Edward L. Smither and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lauded for his thoughts, Augustine of Hippo (354-430) has influenced virtually every philosopher of the last fifteen hundred years. But his personal character and ministry are even more remarkable, for in a time when most monastery dwellers sought solitude, Augustine was always in the company of friends, visiting disciples and writing mentoring letters to those he knew. Augustine as Mentor is written for modern day pastors and spiritual leaders who want to mentor and equip other evangelical Christians based on proven principles in matters of the heart like integrity, humility, faithfulness, personal holiness, spiritual hunger, and service to others. Author Ed Smither explains, “Augustine has something to offer modern ministers pursuing authenticity and longing to ‘preach what they practice.’ Through his thought, practice, success, and even failures, my hope is that today’s mentors will find hope, inspiration, and practical suggestions for how to mentor an emerging generation of spiritual leaders.”
Author : Judith Herrin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691220743
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)
Download or read book The Formation of Christendom written by Judith Herrin and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking history of how the Christian “West” emerged from the ancient Mediterranean world In this acclaimed history of Early Christendom, Judith Herrin shows how—from the sack of Rome in 410 to the coronation of Charlemagne in 800—the Christian “West” grew out of an ancient Mediterranean world divided between the Roman west, the Byzantine east, and the Muslim south. Demonstrating that religion was the period’s defining force, she reveals how the clash over graven images, banned by Islam, both provoked iconoclasm in Constantinople and generated a distinct western commitment to Christian pictorial narrative. In a new preface, Herrin discusses the book’s origins, reception, and influence.
Author : Jaclyn L. Maxwell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108832261
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)
Download or read book Simplicity and Humility in Late Antique Christian Thought written by Jaclyn L. Maxwell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-25 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines how the apostles' manual labour, simplicity, and humility affected the worldviews of upper-class Christians in Late Antiquity.
Author : Noel Emmanuel Lenski
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107013402
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Constantine written by Noel Emmanuel Lenski and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents a comprehensive survey of Emperor Constantine and his times. It examines political history, religion, social and economic history, art, and foreign relations as well as the intimate interplay between emperor and empire.
Author : David J. Stagaman
Publisher : Liturgical Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814659458
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (594 download)
Download or read book Authority in the Church written by David J. Stagaman and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the source of authority when it is found in any community? How did authority in the Roman Catholic Church come to be as it is? In Authority in the Church David Stagaman provides answers to these questions. He asserts that authority is not an attribute of a person (for example the local bishop) nor of a thing (for example the Scriptures). It is rather the bond experienced by all members of a community as they interact. Authority in the Church explores relationships between official and charismatic authority, and their legitimation. The study also provides a basis for dissent by showing how official and charismatic exercises of authority are incomplete without it. Chapter one explores how Roman Catholic Church membership has in the last fifty years shifted from an almost total preoccupation with official authority to a recognition of the necessary role charismatic authorities play in the Church. Chapter two criticizes other studies that delineate authority as either a subjective reality or an objective one. It also critiques two modern myths about authority: that authority is opposed to sound reasoning and that it is inimical to freedom and/or spontaneity. Chapter three examines authority as a shared practice; one that welcomes dissent. Chapter four looks at the first millennium of Christianity: New Testament understandings of authority; the ascendance of mono-episcopacy in the post-apostolic era; the Church's universalist mission after Constantine's edict of toleration; the emergence of councils and synods as modes of government; and claims for succession to Petrine primacy. Chapter five begins with the turn towards centralization in Rome and a juridical understanding of ecclesial authority in the eleventh century. It also notes various challenges to these two tendencies and the Avignon Schism as well as Conciliarism which brought the conflicts to their culmination in the Medieval Ages. Chapter six inquires what makes Church authority Christian and, then, Roman Catholic. It concludes with observations on the religious freedom of the baptized, especially their right to speak freely in the Church. Chapters are "Authority in the Church: A Central Issue and Some Other Issues," "What Authority (Secular or Religious) Is Not " "What Is Authority?" "The First Millennium," "The Second Millennium," and "The Conclusion."
